"Iridescent Vase. Karl Köpping."
Iridescent glass vase with tortuous decoration. Karl Köpping. Köpping found inspiration for the shapes and colors of the glasses of Venetian glassware and the fragility and nuance of oriental craftsmanship, of which his friend Samuel Bing had a famous collection. Bing opened the Maison d'Art Nouveau in Paris in 1895, thus giving this new artistic movement the name under which it became known. This new style, of which glasses are perfect examples, was characterized by exaggerated elegance, fantastic elaborations and modifications of the forms of nature. 
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