All About Glass
All About Glass
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Les Hommes Noirs was designed by the celebrated designer and glass manufacturer Emile Gallé in collaboration with the painter and sculptor Victor Prouvé. In a letter to Prouvé, Gallé wrote that, with Les Hommes Noirs, he aimed to expose "fanaticism, hatred, lies, prejudice, and hypocrisy."