The extravagant elegance of the fin-de-siecle left its most durable legacy in the field of the applied arts, and the name of Emile galle ranks with those of Mucha, Lalique, de Feure and Guimard among the men who combined an artistic vision of the highest order with the exacting and centuries old standards of European craftsmanship. Emile Galle's position as one of the most provocative and multi-faceted talents in Europe at the turn of the century is here confirmed by the richness and variety of his oeuvre in all media, the distillation of an artistic vision which impresses primarily by its nuances and its delicacy...