Edouard Colonna was a German designer and architect, active also in North America France. He studied architecture in Brussels and in 1882 went to New York where he worked briefly as a designer for Tiffany's Associated Artists. From 1885 onwards he produced railway wagons for Barney & Smith, Dayton, OH, and for a Canadian railway company, and he also worked in the field of interior decoration. In 1893 Colonna went to Europe, settling in Paris, where in 1898 he started work as a designer for S. Bing's Galerie Art Nouveau. His heyday came between 1898 and 1902, when he produced designs for jewellery, textiles and furniture, including exhibits in the famous Art Nouveau Bing pavilion (destr.) at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900.

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H 92 x W 50 x D 50 cm