René Lalique began his career as a graphic artist and then as discñador Art Deco jewelry. He discovered the glass when looking new and less expensive materials for their jewelry. Experimented with glass enamels and iron as the lost wax process. His first object-glass it produced between 1893 and 1897 with this technique: a teardrop-shaped bottle with cap. After his initial success, made a number of glass objects exhibited, along with their jewelry in their new workshop Vendónme Place.
was there in 1906 Lalique crystal vases called attention perfumer Francois Coty, who commissioned labels and bottles for their products. Lalique's first designs for Coty were produced in glass by Legras et Cie., Most of them unsigned. By 1908, Lalique had his own glass shop in Comb-la-Ville, where he ran his own designs. Larger premises, acquired in 1909, allowed him to enter series production. At the outbreak of World War I, Lalique had almost completely abandoned the production of jewelry. In 1918 acquired a larger factory at Wingen-sur-Moder.
The Lalique vases, decorated in high relief, very detailed, were made as three ways: by mouth blowing glass into molds, using a mechanical process or Pressé aspired soufflé soufflé, and molded in a press. The base material was always
glass: Glass with a 50 percent lead. Made it clear or colored with metal oxides, sulfates and chlorides, which was achieved with an exquisite palette ranging from emerald green to ruby \u200b\u200bred. Using a sandwich formed by a layer of opaque white glass between two layers of colored glass, beautiful opalescent effects were obtained. Sometimes the decoration was painted or dyed with acid-treated enamel, exposing the glass to metal oxide fumes in a flask, or by polishing with a quick polish or rouge.
The repertoire of motifs of Lalique was also varied: natural or stylized animals, flowers, mythological and human forms and abstract geometric compositions. Relief forms were enhanced by application of enamel colors dyes. In his catalog had a wide variety of objects: vases, dishes, toiletries, bottles, quernaperfumes, jewelry, watch cases, sculptures, mirrors, desk sets, lamps, furniture, architectural, fountains and even novel objects as Pet car. During
twenty, Lalique achieved great success and was widely acclaimed at the Paris Exhibition of 1925, which had its own pavilion. He also designed a high Sevres glass and a great source for the Cours des Métiers. Moreover, their bottles dominated the spectacular "source of perfumes' in the perfumery. Other works were included in exhibitions in various ensembliers. Important commissions followed, including pieces of glass as the Paris Transatlantic (1920), the Ile-de-France (1927) and
Normandie (to 1935): decorative panels, lamps, illuminated ceilings and other accessories. Lamps manufactured for restaurants, theaters, hotels, churches and luxury sleeper French railways, also designed a series of public sources of glass in the Rondpoint of the Champs Elysees in Paris. Works
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