Lalik biography

Elsassian factory. At the end of the x, Lalik begins the manufacture of talismans for hoods of cars. All talismans were made of high -quality glass and installed in special metal mounts with mounted lighting. In addition to the construction of his pavilion, Lalik created a footsteps of the Les Sources de France glass height with illumination. It was decorated with 13 large glass figurines, stylized female figures of ancient Greek mythology.

The Lalik stand represented many products, including its famous vases made in the technique of liquid wax. The exposition brought Rene to the glory of the artist-confused, no less than a jeweler. The Lalik fountain at the exhibition, the master’s pavilion is on the right. The interior and architectural glass in the interior and architectural design Lalik became carried away from G.

Fir legs with cones on the glass repeated the embossed image on the facade. The glass decor of the entrance doors in the Lalika salon on Cours la Reine G. Lalik created many doors decorated with glass. In November, the door set set at the auction, reached a global price record for one point in R. Lalik implements interiors for the largest French liners: Paris in the year, Il de Franes in G.

After the G. exhibition, the most famous of these fountains was installed on the Champs Elysees in Paris, but was later dismantled due to the high cost of service. The most expensive fountain was purchased from auction in November G. Relot Roger Renee developed many architectural components for the OVIATT building in Los Angeles, where 30 tons of products were delivered through the Panama Canal, including panels and inserts of yellow architectural glass.

One of the glass inserts for OVIATT in the years, it creates a glass decor of the restaurant car and some other wagons for Blue Train “Blue Express” by order of Orient Express. And in the year he created a large sandblasting panel for the Wanamaker male department store in Philadelphia. Since the beginning of the x, the panel Lalik for Wanamaker has been working on projects for several churches.

The work lasted to G. in the style of Art Deco made: an altar cross, a spop image, a communion table, window and door panels, several screens, pillars, angelic figures, and a font for inscriptions. The choir of the chapel of the Virgin decorated with Rene with a lalik in the year. In Tokyo, a member of the imperial surname, Prince Asaka, after being in Europe, erected a new palace in the style of Ar-deco with unprecedented luxury and a scope of the palace became a national museum, the Japanese call it “asaconomania”.

By order of Prince, Lalik made doors, chandeliers, window inserts, other interior jewelry for the imperial palace. This is not a complete list of designer architects, but only the most famous part of them. The entrance door to the imperial palace, made by a lalik, made such inserts Lalik for all windows of the first floor of the palace by order of Asak with the beginning of the great depression of the 10ths in the international market of luxury objects decreased.

The plant in Combs-la-Vil worked to G. at the beginning of World War II and the plant in Wingen closed. Rene Lalik died at the age of 85, the day before the declaration of victory by the Allies. The Wingens plant was opened in the same year by Mark Lalik, which allowed the company to survive, supporting the traditions of the great maestro, to this day. The couple in the city of marriage broke up quite soon, but the legal gap took place in the year, according to some reports, the divorce stretched for up to a year.

This woman will become a muse, the closest friend and good adviser in Rene's creative ingenuity. It is believed that some sketches of jewelry are created by Alice or with its participation. The union will give a couple of two beautiful talented children: in the year Suzanne, and in the brand. Legally, the marriage will be registered only in the year and will last to the death of Alicia in for her Rene made a brooch known as the “kiss”, on the back of which there is a commemorative inscription: “I dream of kisses that last forever!

In the year, a boy Rene Le Menil was born from this connection. In the year, Mr. Menil handed over his mother’s brooch to the Museum of Decorative Art in Paris. In the middle of the years, Rene Lalik had a long relationship with Marie Aner, who gave birth to two children: the son of Jean Raimon Rene at that time was 65 years old and daughter Jeanne Georgette in the year. In total, Lalik had six children.

The daughter, son and granddaughter were talented and active people who withheld the high level of prestige of the family company. Suzanne Lalik, Rene constantly resorted to the creative advice of his daughter Suzanne. From a year, she will begin to create sketches of powders and packaging boxes for her father, and then vases and other decorative objects. Through marriage with Paul Burt, a member of the Haviland family, Susanna collided with the world of porcelain.

She also attached her talent in the field of textiles and painting. I created sketches of scenery and costumes for almost 50 performances of the best theaters in France. Among her friends were Paul Moran and Girod. Mark Lalik, Mark graduated from the school of decorative art in Paris, then collaborated with his father.After death, Renee became the head of the family business. Modernized the plant in Wingen, eventually refused the production of glass in favor of crystal, applying some father’s technologies to it.

Marie-Claude Lalik,-continuing the work of his father and grandfather with the city of Mari-Claude, was the very excellent master-stecker who knew the whole process since childhood. She resumed the tradition of jewelry design and developed the corporate aroma of “Lalique de Lalique” in the city of Spirits and the bottle “Lalique de Lalique” in the city In July, the Rene Lalik Museum was opened in Wingen-Sur-Moder.

Products Lalik decorating the necklace “Forest Lake by the Lake”, the first item purchased by Gulbenkian for his collection in the city of the product was put up at the World Exhibition of the year. The necklace consists of three parts fastened with hinges. The trees are made in gold, ivy - enamel, lake - rainbow opals, the product is enriched with a series of small diamonds.

Size: 5 x Despite the apparent simplicity and lack of color, the product is a truly amazing combination of unique technology and higher skill. The necklace consists of a number of small squares of rock crystal with engraved images of cats and foliage connected by a gold mesh. The smallest hinges are hidden under small diamonds, and the top and bottom is framed by a golden border covered with white enamel.

Created in - gg. Dimensions: 5. The “snakes” breast suspension is one of the Renee production paradigms not only for this jewelry. The reptiles were a topic repeated Lalik many times in jewelry, glass, bronze. The gold with enamel the suspension consists of nine attacking snakes intertwined into the knot. The decoration was complete with pearl threads that clung to open snake mouths.

It was in this form that the decoration was presented at the exhibition in the city of the pearl part is unknown. The suspension was made and purchased by Gulbenkyan in the year. Dimensions: 21 x 14.3 cm.

Models for the diadem of the "Orchid" were two flowers that intertwined into a single composition: one of the horns, the other of the elephant bone. In the center of the latter appears a small drop from topaz. The whole composition is attached to the gold hinge on the trident of the crest from the horn. Created in - gg. The necklace "Eagles and Pines" was created in the GG.

Dragonfly's breast decoration Dragonfly, no doubt, is one of the most spectacular, beautiful and at the same time terrible jewelry ever created by Rene Lalik. The brooch was presented with great success at the World Exhibition in the year, contains gold, enamel, chrysoprase, halzedon, lunar stones, diamonds. The female bust is made of chrysopraz, the hairstyle of a woman, in the form of two beetles, is made of red gold with enamel.

For the wings, slots were made in a thin gold plate, then the finest opal enamel was inserted. So that the large size of the jewelry of 23 x 26.5 cm does not interfere with the movements of the one who will wear it, the wings are attached to tiny hinges, which made them mobile. In the breast decoration "Peacock", the feathers of the bird are formed by the enamel from white with a gradual transition to green and blue.

Opalas and diamonds complete the composition. The peacock, most expresses the spirit of modernity, is a constant theme in Lalik's works. The item is made in gg. Size: 9. Perfume bottles are much more than collectors were lucky with bottles for spirits. At auctions, they are found much more often. Each model of the bottle could be performed in different color options.

The number of units released, a design option, for which aroma and by whose order a container is produced, glass processing technology, all this affects the price of the lot. The most expensive bottle was sold at the Tokyo auction in October. It was one of the first bottles released Lalik in G. Ambre de Siam perfume bottle, released in the city of a traffic jam with a female figure and a vine motive on a small matte glass base.