COLONNA, Edward

German architect and designer. He studied architecture from 1877 to 1881 in Brussels, and in 1882 went to New York, where he worked briefly as a designer for Tiffany’s Associated Artists. In 1893 he went to Europe, settling in Paris, where in 1898, he started work as a designer for Siegfried Bing’s Galerie Art Nouveau. His heyday came between 1898 and 1902 when he produced designs for jewellery, textiles, porcelain and furniture, including exhibits in the famous Art Nouveau Bing pavilion (destroyed) at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900.

In 1902 Colonna returned to North America and worked for 20 years as an interior decorator and designer in Canada and the USA. In 1923, he retired to the south of France but was still active as a designer and artist.