Our Company

Eglomisé Designs, Inc.^® has been the leader in the development of fine college and university gifts for four decades. In addition, we design and produce landmark scenes for the best-known corporations in America as well as hospitals, banks, and non-profit organizations. We also design and produce a charming line of infant and children's gifts for retail stores. Our experience shows in the beauty and quality of our work.

Our renowned University Series^® gifts have been presented to a number of Heads of State and other dignitaries. They feature either Colorprints or Pen and Ink illustrations in a style reminiscent of old English engraving. All gifts are hand-made in the U.S.A. by American craftspeople.

Our extensive archive contains perhaps the largest existing collection of American college and university landmark scenes, including large and small four-year colleges, medical schools, and law schools.

Our Service

Eglomisé Designs, Inc.^® has virtually every landmark scene of large and small four-year colleges, medical schools, and law schools. We are always pleased to create custom designs and logos as well. Delivery takes ten days or less -- even with personalization -- and we can ship directly to the graduate. No minimum order is required on most products.

For more information, please call:
1-800-443-8987

What is Eglomisé?

Eglomisé painting was popularized in the 18th century in France and was named after the artisan who developed the technique of applying and blending paint directly on the reverse side of glass. The French eglomisé paintings were exquisite and characterized by gilt ornamentation that brings to mind royalty, palaces, and opulence. The English reverse-glass paintings that followed were not as ornate but were quite sophisticated. Many clocks and mirrors were decorated with these elegant paintings and one can find them in museums throughout Europe.

By mid-20th century eglomisé painting had faded into obscurity and was relatively unknown. In 1965 Eglomisé Designs, Inc. began a business of creating reverse-glass paintings of various subjects such as flowers, fruits, ships, etc. They were simple, charming and began to appear in better retail stores nationally. Today these early decorative subjects are appearing in antique shops at startling prices.

By 1970, Eglomisé Designs, Inc.^® was offering historic views of several hundred American colleges and the academic niche became its forté. Today its library stocks thousands of college scenes, perhaps the most extensive collection of historic college memorabilia in the United States. This unique art is still very much alive today. However, since 2004 each scene is now a fine Colorprint derived from an original painting. One of the greatest advantages of the Colorprints is that personalization can now be added, a service not available in the paintings.