He is difficult to determine the duration of the Modern Style (more typical), one can estimated this duration for six or fifteen years, the Modern Style died as fast as it was born.

It is abandoned and without going account that it has its repercussions in an NEW ART which sets more and more of place, being more popular.

The apartments become Louis XVI and reassuring, one fuss around of " chuck out " everything that one had been able to buy during these mad years.

It is that was supposed to be the Gallé's vases : in all the families, one broke there. Fortunately, the knickknacks and the objects decorated with flowers in such quantity that it stays there fatally. But isolated, they lose their charm, because they incorporate with difficulty in the other times.

The vague Modern Style broke out, taking everything on its passage, then the taste of the clear bulwarks withdrew, not being allowed anything of itself that, and a certain way work the glass.

A great inspirer : the woman, no style had so, put the woman in value : it is, in all or in part, the main subject for the most of the objects, of almost all the pictures and of a great majority of the motives of ornementation.

The head of hair became ornamental subject ; the silhouette, architectural form ; the attitudes, excuses in composition : it is painted, it is sculptured ; it is ceramic, brouze, ivory, enamel, glass ...

The ornamental subjects : the vegetables, with the style 1900 is born an observation more " microscopique ", it is not a part of the flower, of the tree, of the sheet or of the plant, which serves in the new artistic creation. That say stalks, branches, lianas ; fear to little, they become the symbol of a style which wants, in the origin, symbliste. All this becomes muddled, is formed, that it is stone, iron, in cast iron, in minerals, on the posters, the furniture, the bulwarks ...

The insects, the reptiles, gorgones, jellyfishes ...

Those which made the style on 1900.

The Nancy school based in 1888 under the Emile GALLE's impulse, its first purpose is to insure the continuance of the Lorraine folklore.

Victor Prouvé gathers, under its influence, a group there of which will be a part Majorelle, Vallin Daum, Gruber and naturally, Gallé.

The education of the Nancy school has for object to keep in the French modern product, as in the objects of simple utility as to those of the luxury, the sense of the logic, in the construction, of the rational employment of the materials, the practical instinct of the suitability and of the comfort under a finery of elegance, of beauty and of intellectualité.

Materials : the two tendencies, Modern Style and Art nouveau, used materials which, until now, had not had dominating place in the construction. So as a great place is given to the ceramic, to the stoneware flammé and to the glass dough. It is however necessary to note the birth of a building material which gave for a long time evidence since : the reinforced concrete.

Do not consider the style on 1900 as a style " background ", but as an alive, colored artistic expression, intended for the decoration and for the whim.

Prefer the Modern Style, more typical, more cheerful than of Art nouveau, on horseback on several times. Take colours, drawings, materials, that corresponds most to your tastes. This time is enough near us so that you have the chance, cheap, to reconstitute, with the original details, an exact atmosphere.