He said, “I work relentlessly… with the will to arrive at a new result and to create something never seen before.” Hailed as the father of modern jewelry who apprenticed with jeweler Louis Aucoc and studied goldsmithing and design at the Decorative Arts School in Paris before working for celebrated brands like Boucheron, Vever and Cartier, he started his own business in 1888. A leading figure in 19 th- and 20 th-century jewelry and decorative arts, he was beloved by royalty and the intellectual and artistic elite.
Whether it was jewelry, tableware, perfume bottles, vases, objets d’art, luxury car mascots, furniture, lighting, wall decorations or architectural elements, visionary artist René-Jules Lalique, born in 1860 in Aÿ in the Champagne region of France, succeeded in sublimating every object he touched, leaving his mark on the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements.
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