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Lalique Cabochon Ring

The Hot selling Lalique Rings now include the Lalique Ice Light Ring which looks to be on every fashionable womans wants [...]

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Irradiated Glass

Irradiated [...]

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Car Mascots – real or fake ?

One of the earliest Car Mascots was Grand Libellule (a dragonfly). Some but not all were also fitted with a light bulb in the base to make them glow at night. These look gorgeous.Some had a filter compartment so that you could change the colour that the mascot [...]

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Art Nouveau Fragments of Design

Art Nouveau is more than just a style. Translated from French to English it means New Art . In fact that is what the Art Nouveau movement was all about. Unlike some styles, Art nouveau incorporated glass,silver, stained glass,posters,furniture,jewellery,Art,Metalwork,Pottery ,bronze and other sculpture and textiles. It was more a way othinking and designing than slavish copies of a common theme. naturalistic themes were common but even these were transformed into dream-like pieces with an air of fantasy and other-worldliness. Some of the motive forces behind the movement were the leaders in their fields. Alphonse Mucha for his Art and Posters, Klimt for his gorgeously rich works of Art, Rene Lalique for his fantastical jewelry and exquisite glassware. All of these are now household names and highly collectable. Potters joined in with amazing designs as did silversmiths with curved and flowing jewelry. RIng,Necklaces and bracelets in Art Nouveau designs became the highly desired pieces of jewelry that any fashionable lady of the turn of the 19h Century needed to stay in fashion. Actresses and Royalty took up the style and this filtered down to almost every European and American woman The main difference was exactly that the designs were SO very different - very strange and picking up hints of fairyland,mermaid,niads or nymphs were incorporated. Before all of theses fields were very traditional and mainly unchanged for many years before. It was the genius of these designers that altered the perception that everyday objects and Jewels did not have to be exactly as nature designed [...]

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Art Deco Design

Art Deco was a new era in design and incorporated recurring geometric designs. Patterns still included nature themes by Lalique but these were updated to fit into the art deco [...]

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Art Nouveau interesting Websites

An interesting network detailing Art Nouveau in various cities in Europe plus other good [...]

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Calouste Gulbenkian

The best collection of lalique jewellery outside of the Lalique company Is almost certainly the collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. This collection includes both the collected pieces and those commissioned by Calouste Gulbenkian [...]

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Rene Lalique Paris

I was quite disappointed with the Lalique on view - in fact although there were lots of Art Nouveau Glass from Daum and other glassmakers, there was none on display from Lalique [...]

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Lalique at The Met

Rene Lalique made a beautiful Gold necklace for this second Wife (Augustine-Alice Ledru) and this necklace is on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New [...]

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Books on Lalique

If you are a serious collector or dealer in Lalique then good reference Lalique books and catalogues are really the only way to become a specialist without visiting many museums and [...]

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