By 1885, Rene was working for himself. Destape retired and ownership of his business was transferred to Lalique. Now, with a fully staffed workshop and free from the restrictions of working for someone else, he could fully concentrate on his own Art Nouveau designs. Which, featured heavily in the French jewelry trade magazine “Le Bijou” and were met with much admiration and imitation from his competitors. Lalique’s “magic” was in the way he steered clear of the usual precious metals and expensive gems-stones, instead, concentrating more on cheaper materials such as: translucent enamels, semi-precious stones and ivory etc. By 1900, Lalique had reached the pinnacle of his jewelry career. He exhibited at the Exposition Universelle Internationale in Paris and won international praise for the way that he intertwined symbolism and naturalism. However, dismayed by the way that his work was constantly being copied, Rene’s attention began to drift away from his jewelry “art forms” and toward glassmaking.
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By 1909, Rene had begun making perfume bottles for Coty. Prior to this time, most perfumes were sold in plain bottles. Lalique drew upon his experience and created bottles that evoked the nature of the perfume that they contained. By the Nineteen Twenties, he was also creating bottles for some of the greatest French perfumeries of the era: Houbigant, d’Orsay and Molinard to name but a few.
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Within a few years, his glassmaking talents had expanded to include: statuettes, vases, tableware, bowls and, amongst other things, architectural panels. These panels could be found aboard the greatest ocean liners of the day and decorating the dining car of The Orient Express.
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- It didn’t stop there. His glass mascots could be found adorning the hood of many of the more luxurious cars of the Roaring Twenties. Indeed, these are the most sought after collectibles today.
- The Lalique factory closed in 1939 for the duration of World War II. Unfortunately, Rene died on the 5th May 1945 and never witnessed its reopening.