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Lalique

Noun

Meaning

Lalique (uncountable)

A style of Art Nouveau glassware and jewelry/jewellery; properly, that from the Lalique factory.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Contemporary French critics were united in acknowledging that jewellery was undergoing a radical transformation, and that the French designer-jeweller-glassmaker René Lalique was popularizing the changes. Source: Internet

Originally designed in 1951 by French visual artist, Marc Lalique, the table was created to display an aquarium setting, with crystal fish ‘swimming’ between the eight leaves of the giant translucent cactus. Source: Internet

Neodymium glass was widely emulated in the early 1930s by American glasshouses, most notably Heisey, Fostoria ("wisteria"), Cambridge ("heatherbloom"), and Steuben ("wisteria"), and elsewhere (e.g. Lalique, in France, or Murano). Source: Internet

Others were intricately sculpted pieces of glasswork--the kind created by Lalique and Baccarat in the late 19th and early 20th century. Source: Internet

The glass works of René Lalique were described in 1901 by contemporary art critic Jean Lahor as "delicate reverie"'. Source: Internet

In addition, René Lalique started to produce early works in glass which were a precursor to his work in the Art Deco style, for which he was to become famed. Source: Internet

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