THE BUY E R S GUIDE FOR THE LOV E OF L A L IQUE
The name Lalique is synonymous with quality craftsmanship, luxurious products and scintillating style. René Lalique created a legacy of work which would live on long after his death and which today is collected by admirers from around the world.
While prices can easily tip in the heady heights of thousands, even tens of thousands, don’t be put off. A steady nerve, keen nose and perseverance can help you find pieces for less then a £100, after that……the sky’s the limit!
René Lalique was born in 1860, in the small village of Ay, in the Marne region of France. It was a time before light bulbs, and telephones, automobiles and washing machines however by the time of his death in 1945 just two months before the dawn of the atomic age, he would have successfully mastered two careers spanning two different centuries in two dramatically different styles.
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By 1900 at the age of 40, he was the most celebrated jeweller in the world and an Art Nouveau artist and designer of magnificent proportions. However by 1925, at the height of the Art Deco era, he was to become the most celebrated glassmaker in the world with patrons ranging from stars of screen and stage to the highest Royal Courts of Europe. Lalique would leave his contemporaries behind as he turned from unique jewellery and objects d'art to the mass production of innovative and usable art glass.
During his career as a jeweller he had become increasingly intrigued with the artistic possibilities of glass. This fascination slowly developed into obsession resulting in an artistic output that would far outstrip his earlier jewellery work. By the time of his death the catalogue of his creations totalled over 1500 pieces ranging from daringly dramatic vases to monumental architectural works.
Lalique ignored the limitations of glass and through experimentation quickly became a master of the material. Capitalising on the mass production processes of pressed glass manufacture it is estimated that in the 20-year period between the wars, the Lalique factories produced well over 10 million separate pieces of high-quality glass (let alone the millions more made since his death).
In 1905, Lalique opened a retail store in the Place Vendome in Paris. Fortuitously, his new store was located very close to the shop of the perfume seller, Francois Coty. In 1908 Lalique was approached by Francois Coty to develop a range of decorative labels to attach to small simple scent files. Lalique grasped this opportunity and while creating the distinctively decorative labels he began developing bottles to apply them to. Prior to this perfume bottles were plain flasks holding expensive scents for the wealthy classes. The invention of synthetic oils turned production from limited to mass market and with it
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