Jewelry Design Gallery Biography
Source(google.com.pk)Born on April 6, 1860 in rural Ay, France, René spent most of his childhood in Paris, but often retreated to the country to gain inspiration. Throughout his adolescence, Lalique was fascinated by nature, and studied flowers, plants, insects and other natural forms, and was a talented artist - he had even begun to sell paintings of flowers and insects when he was quite young. At the age of sixteen, he started an apprenticeship with the Paris jeweler Louis Aucoc. Lalique studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs while completing his apprenticeship, and then went on to study draughtsmanship at Sydenham College, outside of London, for two years, beginning in 1878.
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Lalique returned to Pairs in 1880 with the intention of become a leading jewelry designer. To this end, he began a detailed study of jewelry techniques. During this time, he also studied sculpture, and made his first designs for fabrics and wallpapers at the Ecole Bernard Palissy, under Justin Lequien.
Most of the early jewelry that Lalique created at this time was based on traditional diamond-set designs. He sold these pieces to major Parisian jewelry houses, including Aucoc, Boucheron, Cartier, and Destape. When Jules Destape retired in 1885, Lalique took over his workshop. This is when Lalique really began to utilize his creative and innovative genius, and began to experiment with creating jewelry of his own design.
lalique-diademe-orchidee.jpgLalique's approach to jewelry design was highly original in many ways. Perhaps the most important was his determination to create beautiful pieces without relying exclusively on expensive materials. He explored such materials as glass, horn, pearls, semi-precious stones, enamels, and ivory, and was more interested in how hw could use there materials, and what they could contribute to the beauty of the piece aesthetically than he was in intrinsic value. This made Lalique's jewelry unique, and the pieces were true works of art.
Lalique, like many designers of the Art Nouveau period, was influenced by Japonism - the esthetic of Japanese art and design which had gained great popularity in Europe, but the main inspiration for his jewelry was the natural world, especially that of the French countryside that he so loved to explore.
lalique-collier-noisettes.jpgIn 1887, Lalique exhibited his jewelry at the Exposition Nationale des Arts Industriels in Paris. While his designs were beginning to be recognized as great works of art, and revolutionary in design and concept, many people were shocked, finding some of his designs disturbing and too realistic.
Lalique continued to experiment even more with enamel and cast and enameled glass elements, paving the way for his later Art Deco career as a great designer and manufacturer of glass vases, objects, and jewelry.
By 1890, Lalique was a well-known artist in the jewelry world in Paris, and in 1892, Lalique secured the patronage of Sarah Bernhardt, the famous actress. This immediately established him internationally as one of the best and most influential jewelry designers. Lalique won first prize at the Salon in Paris in 1897 for hair combs made from ivory and horn, and by 1900, Lalique exhibited not only jewelry, but also decorative arts that were made with bronze, ivory, and glass, at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. The exhibition at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris attracted over 50 million viewers, and established Lalique as both a premier jewelry designer of the Art Nouveau movement, and a prominent figure in the decorative arts.
lalique-dragonfly-woman.jpgIn 1905, Lalique opened his first retail store on the prestigious Place Vendôme in Paris, where he received royal patronage from Queen Alexandra. Queen Alexandra had modernized the style of dress for royalty, including the acceptance of daytime jewelry. One of the pieces that Lalique created for her was a gold triangular pendant, with two swans sitting on a lake of enamel, and set within a framework of a stylized swan, whose curved neck formed the attachment for a gold chain.
By the time René Lalique had established himself as "the inventor of modern jewelry," according to Emile Galle, Lalique became even more interested in experimenting with glass - for jewelry as well as the decorative arts. In 1902, Lalique worked in a small workshop in Clairefontaine, and experimented with the "lost wax" process, which involved making a wax model, enclosing it in plaster, melting out the wax, and making a casting from the plaster mould. This workshop was open until 1912, even though Lalique also began working at Verrerie, a glassworks that he opened in Combs, in 1909.
lalique-perfume-flacon-lidyll.jpgThroughout the years before 1920, Lalique created a variety of pieces out of glass, including cachets, vases, ashtrays, tableware, car mascots, light fixtures, statues, perfume bottles and fountains. By creating these various, everyday objects out of glass, Lalique brought art to ordinary people. Even though the glass was manufactured in his workshop, post-manufacturing additions such as enameling, painting, frosting, bronze mountings and polishing were always used to create the most unique pieces. Additionally, Lalique had developed a glass that had exceptional qualities of brilliance and richness of color.
Verrerie proved to be so successful that it had to be expanded in 1918 at Wingen sur Moder. Some of Lalique's most important and largest glass pieces were made at this factory. It was also the place where Lalique began combining glass and architecture. Lalique was the first artist to decorate glass in doors, windows, lampshades, houses, churches, and hotels.
In 1925, Lalique exhibited his decorative glassware at the 1925 Exposition des Art Décoratifs. His use of natural themes in his glass designs was amazingly varied - insects, flowers, leaves and other natural elements were cleverly adapted to his designs for lalique-serpents.jpgvases, perfume bottles and other articles. The quality of the glass casting was exceptional, and the colors vibrant or subtle, depending on the piece. He would often produce one model in a variety of colors. This exhibition solidified his reputation as a genius in the manufacturing of decorative glassware, and also showed a shift in the style of his work. Instead of producing curved and linear designs, his work also began exhibiting the square and rectangular elements of the emerging Art Deco style, although he never fully abandoned the Art Nouveau traditions that made his work so recognizable.
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