Lalique is a French glassmaker, founded by renowned glassmaker and jeweller Rene Lalique in 1888.
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Lalique is a French glassmaker, founded by renowned glassmaker and jeweller Rene Lalique in 1888.
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Lalique is best known for producing glass art, including perfume bottles, vases, and hood ornaments during the early twentieth century.
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Rene Lalique began his career as a jewellery apprentice at the age of 16, and by 1881 he was a freelance designer for many of the best-known Parisian jewellers.
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In 1887, Lalique opened a business on Rue du Quatre-Septembre, and registered the "RL" mark the following year.
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In 1905, Lalique opened a new shop at Place Vendome which exhibited not only jewellery, but glass works as well.
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The first Lalique glassworks opened in 1909 in a rented facility in Combs-la-Ville, which Lalique later purchased in 1913.
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In December 1912, Lalique hosted an exhibition of Lalique Glass—as his glass would come to be known—at the Place Vendome shop.
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From 1925 to 1931, Lalique produced 29 models of hood ornaments; a mermaid statuette first produced in 1920 was later sold as a hood ornament.
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Marie-Claude Lalique took control of the company following Marc's death in 1977.
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Today, Lalique produces an array of luxury products in five main categories: jewellery, decorative items, interior design, perfumes, and art.
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Lalique is best known for the production of artistic glass works, primarily using crystal since the mid-twentieth century.
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From its founding until the 1900s–1910s, Lalique was one of France's foremost Art Nouveau jewellery designers.
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Lalique designed several interiors, incorporating copious amounts of glass, including interiors for: the SS Paris, the SS Ile de France, the SS Normandie, Orient Express railroad cars, Peace Hotel, Oviatt Building, and St Matthew's Church.
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