‘Glass, the wonderful material’

René Lalique and the Age of Glass

See how René Lalique was seduced by the versatility of industrial production, bringing art to both everyday objects and large-scale architectural interventions.
Luísa Sampaio 08 Mar 2021 6 min
René Lalique and the Age of Glass
Lalique worked with the great perfumers of his time, such as François Coty or Lucian Lelong, bringing  art to the glass design of perfume bottles.
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René Lalique and the Age of Glass

René Lalique transformed glass, ‘the wonderful material’, in a completely innovative way. In this series of eight episodes, curator Luísa Sampaio presents the themes that characterise the long and illustrious career of the leading jeweller and master glassmaker of the Art Nouveau and Art Déco movements.

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