During the interwar period, glass manufacturers produced series of art objects in clear, opalescent, or colored glass, decorated with geometric patterns or stylized figures.
While the taste for a clean, simplified, and stylized aesthetic emerged as early as 1910, it really took off in France after the Great War. Several glass manufacturers, such as Les Établissements Gallé and the Daum factory in Nancy, as well as the Verreries Réunies of Saint-Denis and Pantin north of Paris, then directed their production toward the Art Deco style. Others took advantage of this enthusiasm to open an artistic department, like the Verrerie des Andelys in Eure, which mainly produced opalescent glass vases in the 1930s.
But this enthusiasm for Art Deco aesthetics also encourages some creators to open their own establishments. This is the case with the Schneider brothers, who started producing colored glass art objects in 1918 in Épinay-sur-Seine, and René Lalique, who began his production of blown-molded and pressed-molded glass in his glassworks opened in 1921 in Wingen-sur-Moder, in Moselle.
Abroad as well, the Art Deco style influences the creation of glass art objects within factories. The Loetz glassworks in Bohemia, the Warren Metal Factory (WMF) in Germany, and the glassworks of Leerdam in the Netherlands all adopt contemporary trends.