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René Lalique had a strong influence on the Art Nouveau and the Art Deco movements, as a jewellery designer, and later, as a glassmaker.
With seemingly limitless creativity and inspiration, this visionary artist opened the gates for an immense body of work which includes a personal, audacious, innovative and definitely “avant-garde” legacy.
Few are those before René Lalique who had meticulously explored nature with a desire to reinvent it. Guided by his hand and his boundless imagination, he freed himself from the nature of substance. He chose elements for their strength, colour or texture, and, whether precious or not, they became a tool for his creation. What mattered most to him was the design, the intensity of the lines and the power of contrasts.
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René Lalique had a strong influence on the Art Nouveau and the Art Deco movements, as a jewellery designer, and later, as a glassmaker.
With seemingly limitless creativity and inspiration, this visionary artist opened the gates for an immense body of work which includes a personal, audacious, innovative and definitely “avant-garde” legacy.
Few are those before René Lalique who had meticulously explored nature with a desire to reinvent it. Guided by his hand and his boundless imagination, he freed himself from the nature of substance. He chose elements for their strength, colour or texture, and, whether precious or not, they became a tool for his creation. What mattered most to him was the design, the intensity of the lines and the power of contrasts.
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