ABSTRACT
The statutes of the Ecole de Nancy, Emile Gallé writes the art created by the artists in the group will focus primarily on the observation of natural forms. The artists of the Ecole de Nancy will employ nature, in other words, not in the form of stylized motifs derived from art of the past but in a way more consistent with an era of scientific advancement and progress. The artist's reference to "scientific observation" underscores the stylistic modernity of the Ecole de Nancy by linking its artistic program not to a rekindling of tradition but to new discoveries taking place in the natural sciences. Beneath his two sketches of the orchid motif, Gallé penciled in a series of phrases: "tous pour chacun/chacun pour tous", "tortous po chacun/chacun po tortous", and "un chacun pour tous/tous pour chacun"— all variations on the motto "all for one [and] one for all".
