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Elliott, Kelley J. René Lalique: Enchanted by Glass, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York 2014. ISBN 978-0-300-20511-4; Weiner, Geoffrey George Unique Lalique Mascots, The Book Guild Ltd., Brighton 2014 ISBN 978-1909-984219; Weiner, Geoffrey George Unique Lalique Mascots, Grosvenor House Publishing Co.2020 ISBN 978-1-78623-510-7
Lalique is a French luxury glassmaker, founded by renowned glassmaker and jeweller René Lalique in 1888. [1] Lalique is best known for producing glass art, including perfume bottles, vases, and hood ornaments during the early twentieth century.
Lalique glass altarpiece. St Matthew's was built in 1840 as a chapel of ease. [1] In 1934, Florence Boot, Lady Trent, the widow of Jesse Boot of Boots the Chemists, commissioned an extensive renovation of the church by architect A. B. Grayson and French glass designer René Lalique. [1]
The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum houses one of the world's most important private art collections. It includes works from Ancient Egypt to the early 20th century, spanning the arts of the Islamic World, China and Japan, as well as the French decorative arts, the jewellery of René Lalique and some of the most important painters of all times works such as Rembrandt, Monet, Rubens, Manet, Renoir ...
Chrysis, designed by René Lalique, Gulbenkian's Rolls-Royce. Gulbenkian began as an unpaid worker for his father, who was as noted for his miserly tendencies as his son would be for his spending, but later sued his father for $10 million, bizarrely after a refusal by the company to allow him $4.50 for a lunch of chicken in tarragon jelly. [5]
René Lalique was another prominent designer of Art Nouveau glass. Beginning in 1895 he made pieces for the shop of Samuel Bing , the Maison de l'Art Nouveau, which gave Art Nouveau its name. He met the perfume creator François Coty and in 1908 he pioneered in the design of perfume bottles, small glass symbols of modernity, which became a new ...
Art Nouveau artists such as René Lalique, [11] Lucien Gaillard [12] and other French and German artists predominantly used plique-à-jour in small jewellery, though the Victoria & Albert Museum has a tray of 1901 by Eugène Feuillâtre (1870–1916). [13]
In that year, famous French glass designer René Lalique opened the Verrerie d'Alsace (Alsace glassworks) glassworks in Wingen; it became the Cristallerie Lalique (Lalique Crystal Works) in 1962. [6] It is the only glass production facility of the Lalique company, which he founded. [7]