LALIQUE CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES SMALL VASE

LALIQUE CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES SMALL VASE

LALIQUE, a history that blends with the history of the decorative arts of the 20th century. René Lalique began his career as a jewellery designer, becoming the creator of the jewel par excellence of the modern age.

His passion for glass led him to create objects from the most common gift items to the most particular where transparency, workmanship, reflections make him achieve great international success.

The Lalique style comes from the artist’s drawing who creates, in total osmosis with crystal, an expression recognizable by the manual modeling of parts and assemblies that become sculpture, rich in details that give a particular contrast to the crystal, transparent and satin, transforming it into light sculptures.

The originality of the Lalique style is the result of a particular production process, which does not end with the hot processing of the crystal. This phase, in fact, is followed by a meticulous process of cold working of each piece, during which the expert hands of crystal artists embellish every detail and remove any imperfection. We are in the presence of an authentic work of sculpture, the edges are intensified, some details are emphasized as the movement of a hair or the expression of a carved face.

Each piece must go through several intermediate stages of processing and control before deserving the signature LALIQUE which is made by hand using a tip of diamond, as proof of its authenticity and quality.

The success of Lalique

The success of the jewellery made by Lalique lies in their inspiration, i.e. in the beauty of nature and the charm of female nudity, typical traits of Art Nouveau. Her jewellery was distinguished by the variety of materials used. With glass, horn, enamels and ivory, she was able to model wonderful insects. His fame, together with Antonin Daum – son of the entrepreneur Jean Daum – and Emile Gallé grew thanks to the Universal Exhibition held in Paris in 1900.

In his complex path, certainly generous of ingenuity, Lalique left us bijou representing femme-fleu, mermaids, jellyfish, peacocks, swans, butterflies, bees – the insects’ wings were made with the technique of “plique-à-jour- , swans, Wagnerian themes. His were noble works of art, as demonstrated by the diadem in the shape of an ivory orchid, horn and small topaz in the centre, preserved at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. The jewellery becomes the key to inscribing René Lalique’s technical mastery in the art of goldsmithing.

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