Founded in Manhattan's West Chelsea in the early 1990s, Miriam Ellner's eponymous atelier is dedicated to bringing the endangered craft of verre églomisé into a modern context. Today, a growing team of seven artisans works together on this ancient technique of gilding precious metals and pigment to the reverse side of glass, which is then etched, engraved or painted. The atelier's work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Galerie, Elle Décor, First Dibs: Introspective Magazine and Interior Design among many others. Miriam, who leads the workshop, was awarded the 2013 Arthur Ross Award for excellence in the classical tradition, and the 2025 McKim Mead & White award.

Miriam Ellner collaborates with leading designers and architects on different global projects, such as for Chanel and Dior stores, the Mandarin Oriental in London, and the Tiffany flagship store in New York. The atelier's diverse application of verre églomisé includes rooms completely panelled in glass, furniture, ceilings, partitions and original glass paintings. This rare artform transforms these objects and architectural elements into luminous, moving paintings that shift with the quality of light. Miriam Ellner globally sources precious metals such as gold leaf, moon gold and palladium, and works with lustrous materials such as mother of pearl and crushed abalone.