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René Jules Lalique (6 April 1860 in Ay, Marne – 1 May 1945 in Paris) was a French glass designer known for his creations of glass art, perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and automobile hood ornaments.
His creations, representing above all natural elements, animals and naked female, were distinguished at first within the bounds of Art Nouveau and later on in that of Art Déco. Goldsmith, glassmaker and draughtsman, worked for Cartier, thought jewels up for Sarah Bernhardt and drew great success in occasion of the universal exhibition of Paris of 1900.
Entrusting to itself more than to the originality of the drawing and to the quality of the working that to the value from the used material, Lalique resorted for example to the ivory, to the cornel and to the enamel to realise many only pieces.
The first years of the Nine hundred it applied the own creativity above all to the glass, at first within the bounds of the jewellery art and then more and more often with commercial purposes, itself being dedicated to the production of the most different articles and applying a great techniques variedness. By 1890, Lalique was recognized as one of France’s foremost Art Nouveau jewellery designers .His activity broke off during the World War II, but it was retaken by the son Marc in 1946. In 2000, the Swiss entrepreneur Silvio Denz Lalique has acquired the property of the crystal to Wingen-sur-Moder and Lalique has extended the mark to other merchandise categories, between which it perfumes, jewels,
objects of furniture and objects of art realised with artists which Jean-Michel Jarre and Zaha Hadid.
Both unique and commercial works of René Lalique are in the collections of a large number of public museums around the world including the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, the Lalique museum of Hakone in Japan, the Musée Lalique and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in France, the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim in Germany, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum and the Corning Museum in New York State,and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.