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Gregg was born in Truro and has lived in Cornwall all of his life, growing up in the area of North Cornwall. The studio is a family run establishment, based in the Devonshire market town of Holsworthy on the Devon/Cornwall border.
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Every single piece is handmade by Gregg himself.
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They were a very clear reaction on the heavy and dark and sometimes black furniture of the end of the 19th century.Īlistair Duncan, Galle Furniture, the Antique Collectors Club, 2012.The Craft Fusion studio is where glass artist and designer Gregg Anston-Race creates his works of art. The furniture is light of weight, clear of color, and with fantasy forms of the legs of the tables. The other part of the furniture exists of not too big executed pieces: tables for the tea, pedestals, tablets for the tea and so on. The greater part of Gallé’s production existed of ‘tables cigognes’, small tables that one could shift under each other. Also his signature on the tables seems to be Japanese. You can recognize in the representation of the furniture some influence of the Japanese art of drawing, special with the ‘marquetterie’ of the white water lilies. The designs were untill 1904 from Gallé himself and from 1890 clearly inspired by nature: flowers, dragonflies, plants, and landscapes. There was another part of the factory Gallé that developed and executed furniture. The later vases from 1920 until 1938 are very precious nowadays, because the technique of etching and pressing the glass was of a very high quality. The vases of 1904 to 1906 are marked with a star as a remembering to Emile Gallé. Gallé died in 1904 on leukemia and afterwards the factory was managed by his wife Henriette Gallé and his son in law Paul Perdrizet until 1938. Very precious pieces are vases which have been executed not only with the technique as decribed above, but also with the laying of an “appliqué”, an extra piece of hot glass on the surface of the glass of the oven, which was graved with the wheel afterwards. Mostly it’s used for the decoration of a template/stencil.