"They Don't make 'em like they used to..."
Well, they never made them like Rene Lalique, and they never have since -
Rene Jules Lalique (April 6, 186o - May 1, 1945), - french glass designer of vases, jewellry, chandeliers, clocks, perfume bottles, automobile hood ornaments, and various objects'd'arte - along with Louis Comfort Tiffany with his tiffany lamps, and Hector Guimard of Paris Metro Station entrance renown - is inextricably associated with the art nouveau movement that began in the fin de siecle in conjunction with both incredible leaps of insight into the natural world, and the explosion of technology associated with the advent of The Industrial Revolution -
Most of us, when we hear the term "Art Nouveau" (which is actually an umbrella term for various movments that included jugendstil, seccessionist, "the new style," etc) will immediately have Lalique's masterpiece of a jewellry breast piece pop into our heads, whether we like it or not -
Lalique's dragonfly goddess, in a measure - captures all the exuberance, profound craftsmanship, and seemingly inexhaustible potential of mining motifs from the natural world, as well the possibilities of the human spirit -
What follows are some of Lalique's better known jewellry pieces -
Enjoy!
-Roxbury
Well, they never made them like Rene Lalique, and they never have since -
Rene Jules Lalique (April 6, 186o - May 1, 1945), - french glass designer of vases, jewellry, chandeliers, clocks, perfume bottles, automobile hood ornaments, and various objects'd'arte - along with Louis Comfort Tiffany with his tiffany lamps, and Hector Guimard of Paris Metro Station entrance renown - is inextricably associated with the art nouveau movement that began in the fin de siecle in conjunction with both incredible leaps of insight into the natural world, and the explosion of technology associated with the advent of The Industrial Revolution -
Most of us, when we hear the term "Art Nouveau" (which is actually an umbrella term for various movments that included jugendstil, seccessionist, "the new style," etc) will immediately have Lalique's masterpiece of a jewellry breast piece pop into our heads, whether we like it or not -
Lalique's dragonfly goddess, in a measure - captures all the exuberance, profound craftsmanship, and seemingly inexhaustible potential of mining motifs from the natural world, as well the possibilities of the human spirit -
What follows are some of Lalique's better known jewellry pieces -
Enjoy!
-Roxbury