Rene
Lalique, one of the first designer of the century, designer of the
lights of the dining room of stemaer Normandy and the East-Express
train, deserves more than ever this retrospective in honour to a
definitively French art during the short one and prestigious period Art
nouveau. Beyond the luminaries, much before his name is associated Art
Déco and its famous molten glasses, Lalique is initially the
creator of the modern jewel. His inimitable pencil signature opens the
doors of Tout Paris to him. He will seduct allure women lights such as
Sarah Bernhardt. He renews a kind which still took its reference marks
at the XIXth century. He uses new, introducing into the world of the
jewels, the coral, the horn, the ivory, glass, the opal. The woman as a
myth inspires him. Woman-animal, vegetalized, such as the Art nouveau
will stylize it. Drawing his inspiration in exotic nature, plants and
flowers drawed in the Botanical garden, he will become one of the
headlights of the World Fair of 1900. This presentation with the Museum
of Luxembourg counts 400 numbers, of which many drawings, sketches,
jewels, various objects, carried out between 1890 and 1912 by the
Master.
