Lalique

How amazing the beginning of the 20th century was! Time of jazz and flourishing of all kinds of art. Time when a skilled artisan was equal to an artist, and painting gurus drew posters, advertisements and packaging for common goods. Time when recently elite art objects were replicated on an ...

In my previous article we talked about amazing jewellery by René Lalique, and today we will admire his glass vases. After Paris exhibition in 1900, René Lalique became internationally famous and commercially successful. He was described with numerous epithets — a fearless ...

René Jules Lalique started his professional career as an apprentice of a Parisian jeweller. He had been drawing since childhood and was not going to stop this activity. Soon he brought several sketches of jewellery to the artist who taught him. They were strange, very strange as no one ...