René Lalique - Vase - Glass

Lalique began in 1872 to study drawing and artistic crafts in Paris at Collège Turgot. He continued his studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs. In 1876 he began work at a jewelry workshop, continuing his studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs. From 1878 to 1880 he studied at Sydenham College in London.

After returning to France he worked for jewelry companies, including Cartier and Boucheron. In 1884 he founded, together with jeweler Varenne, the company Lalique & Varenne. In the next year he established his own enterprise producing goods according to his own designs. In addition to gold and precious stones he used ivory, enamel, semi‑precious stones, and glass. From 1889 he anonymously supplied products to the jewelry shop Vever et Boucheron, and in 1890 he opened a jewelry shop. Among his clients was actress Sarah Bernhardt. At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century he worked in the Art Nouveau style.

In 1908 he began production of perfume bottles for the François Coty company. From 1911 he began to create exclusively in glass. At the Combs-la-Ville workshop he engaged in the production of glass packaging for the pharmaceutical industry. In 1921 he opened a factory in Wingen-sur-Moder.

After World War I he took up designing interior architectural decorative elements.

In 1920 he began creating jewelry in the Art Deco style.

He died in 1945. He was buried in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery. ,,vase with blows on the base,,