Louis Majorelle uses flowing, organic forms in his furniture.

The Majorelle firm's factory, designed by famous École de Nancy architect Lucien Weissenburger, is located at 6, rue du Vieil-Aître in the western part of Nancy.

In the 1880s Majorelle turned out pastiches of Louis XV furniture styles, which he exhibited in 1894 at the Exposition d'Art Décoratif et Industriel [Exposition of Decorative and Industrial Art] in Nancy, but the influence of the glass- and furniture-maker Emile Gallé had inspired him to take his production in new directions.

Beginning in the 1890s, Majorelle's furniture, embellished with inlays, take their inspiration from nature: stems of plants, waterlily leaves, tendrils, dragonflies.