FRAD006_251J Histoire d'Émile Maria

Of old Nice stock, Émile Maria was born in May 1896 rue Michelet, in Nice in the Maria house. His father, Antoine Pascal is a sculptor. He had been delegated by the city of Nice to the 1st International Exhibition in Paris in 1889. He gave sculpture and drawing lessons and owned a small basketry business with 6 workers where the famous woven straw packaging was made for the shipment of carnations …