The son of a Lyonnais weaver, Claudius Linossier discovered his passion for metal at an early age and was apprenticed to a local silversmith at the age of thirteen. Subsequently, he left Lyon for Paris where he first apprenticed at the studio Cardeilhac, receiving an education in the techniques of enameling, and next with the period’s premier metalworker, Jean Dunand, where he learned dinanderie.

Linossier returned to Lyon in 1920, opened an atelier and began creating his own dinanderie vessels often inspired by the ancient Greek and Etruscan examples he had previously studied at the Louvre. From his workshop in the Croix Rousse district, he created conical, spherical, or ovoid forms, which he overlaid with his f...