René Lalique was a French artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He began his career as a renowned jeweler in the Art Nouveau style. In the early 1900s, he transitioned to glassmaking and became highly influential in the Art Deco movement. Lalique helped popularize glass arts by developing new techniques to mass produce decorative glass objects for the home. He is renowned for his ornate and organic designs depicting nature and the female form. The document provides examples of his renowned jewelry, glasswork, and influence on glass arts through both his unique creations and industrial production methods.

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2. René Jules Lalique (1860 – 1945) was born
a rural 19th century man in a pre-
industrialized Europe. It was a time
before light bulbs, and telephones, before
automobiles and washing machines and
electricity. But by the time of his death in
1945 at the dawn of the atomic age, he
would have completed two careers
spanning two different centuries. In 1900
at the age of 40, he was the most
celebrated jeweler in the world and an
art nouveau artist and designer of
magnificent proportions. But by 1925 at
the height of the art deco era he was the
most celebrated glassmaker in the world.

5. In between Lalique would leave his contemporaries behind as he turned
from creating unique jewelry and objects d'art, to the mass production of
innovative and usable art glass. He brought glass into the home of
everyday people where it had never been before, and he worked out the
industrial techniques to mass produce his useful art glass objects on a scale
and cost to complement the spreading industrial revolution and resulting
worldwide appetite for his products.

6. 70 x 52 mm
Perle: 26 x 24 mm 77 g
93 x 187 mm 58 g
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon

7. 'The Betrothal
-To Have & To Hold'
Art Nouveau Ring 1904

9. The amazing creations by René Lalique
often referred to as the "Sculptor of
Light", the exquisite designer of jewelry
and precious glassware, mainly depict
natural elements, animals and female
nudes, in the typical Art Nouveau and
Art Deco styles.

22. Lalique horn comb sold at Sotheby’s for $25,200.

26. Metamorphose. This comb was the star of the Lalique / Japanese comb-comparison exhibit in Hakone, Japan

54. "You would think that this flower would crumple with a puff of wind, because
each part seems mobile and alive", commented a contemporary when the work
was exhibited at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français in 1897.
H. 7; W. 23.5; D. 10.5 cm Musée d’Orsay Paris

62. The great Lalique Moineaux Chambranle
Crante Doors from Villa Millbrook, the
Jersey home of Lady Trent sold as Lot 131
on November 22nd at Sotheby’s in Paris at
their sale Arts Décoratifs du XXe siècle &
Design Contemporain.
Against a pre-sale estimate of €400,000 -
€600,00, the final hammer price was
€1,750,000 which totaled €2,024,750
including buyers premium, or
approximately $2,750,000 at today’s
exchange rates.
This great R Lalique result is a world
record price for a single Rene Lalique work
at auction!
Porte moineaux chambranle cranté (pair) pressed glass, nickel-plated steel
Size 270 x 180 x 13 cm.Year 1929 - en verre blanc moulé-pressé,
Sotheby's Paris: Tuesday, November 22, 2011

63. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of René
Lalique's birth, LALIQUE is paying him
tribute with the creation of a unique and
exceptional never-before-made necklace,
based on a design from 1898-1900. One
hundred and twenty years later, this item
of jewellery is astoundingly modern and
once again demonstrates the genius and
multi-faceted talent of its creator: jeweller,
glassmaker and architect in one - in
short, a designer before the term existed...

64. No fewer than 812 stones, diamonds and emeralds with
a total weight of 17.90 carats, make up the
ornamentation of this magnificent white gold necklace
created from an original design by René Lalique.
Slightly flexible, thanks to an articulated device hidden
inside the serpent, it hugs the neck in a perfect fit.
Particular attention has been paid to the choice of the
stones of which it is made: they are exceptional gems of
the highest quality, such as the D-IF pear diamond
adorning the snake’s head and the two emerald eyes.
This wonderful example of fine jewellery craftsmanship
required more than 700 hours of work.

65. À la mort de René Lalique
en 1945, la deuxième
génération incarnée par
son fils Marc qui lui
succède est celle du
cristal.
Un verre d’exception
d’une grande pureté, qui
tire son poids et son éclat
du plomb (24% minimum
pour avoir droit au nom
de cristal au sens de la
norme NF).
La plus prestigieuse –et
monumentale- création
de Marc Lalique est sans
conteste le lustre de 1951,
une œuvre exceptionnelle
d’1,7 tonne et de 3 mètres
de haut, qui illumine le
hall d’entrée du musée
Lalique.
Lalique's Limited Edition
for 1998, called Ondines
It is a so-called 'tiara
bottle', because of the
form of the stopper.

66. Text: Internet
Pictures: Internet & Daniela Iacob
Copyright: All the images belong to their authors
Arangement: Sanda Foişoreanu
Sound: Viotti - Concerto pour piano et orchestre en Sol mineur – Rondo
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