luxury goods founded 1888 1888 in paris france founder ren lalique owner art & fragrance website www.cristallalique.fr lalique is a french glassmaker founded by renowned glassmaker and jeweller ren lalique in 1888 . 1 lalique is best known for producing glass art including perfume bottles vases and hood ornaments during the early twentieth century . following the death of ren lalique transitioned to producing lead glass crystal works during the 1950s while under the direction of ren s son marc lalique . since 2010 lalique has been owned by swiss company art and fragrance . contents 1 history 2 works 3 factory 4 references 5 external links history edit further information ren lalique ren lalique 1860 1945 began his career as a jewellery apprentice at the age of 16 and by 1881 he was a freelance designer for many of the best known parisian jewellers . 2 in 1885 he opened his own workshop on place gaillon in paris 3 the former workshop of jules destape . 2 in 1887 lalique opened a business on rue du quatre septembre and registered the rl mark the following year . 3 in 1890 he opened a shop in the opera district of paris . 2 within a decade lalique was amongst the best known parisian jewellers . 2 3 oiseau de feu firebird 1922 in 1905 lalique opened a new shop at place vend me which exhibited not only jewellery but glass works as well . 2 3 it was close to the shop of renowned perfumer fran ois coty ; in 1907 lalique began producing ornate perfume bottles for coty . 2 3 the production of glass objects began at his country villa in 1902 and continued there until at least 1912 . 2 the first lalique glassworks opened in 1909 in a rented facility in combs la ville which lalique later purchased in 1913 . 2 in december 1912 lalique hosted an exhibition of lalique glass as his glass would come to be known at the place vend me shop . 2 during the first world war the glassworks produced mundane items in support of the war effort . 2 in 1919 work began on a new production facility in wingen sur moder which opened in 1921 . 2 3 from 1925 1931 lalique produced 29 models of hood ornaments ; a mermaid statuette first produced in 1920 was also later sold as a hood ornament . 2 during the 1920s and 1930s lalique was amongst the world s most renowned glassmakers . 4 ren lalique died in 1945 . 4 his son marc lalique took over the business operating initially as m.lalique and later as cristal lalique . 2 under marc s leadership the company transitioned from producing its famous lalique glass to producing lead glass commonly known as crystal . 2 marie claude lalique took control of the company following marc s death in 1977 . it was sold to pochet in 1994 and to a partnership of art & fragrance and the holding company financi re saint germain in 2008 . since 2010 cristal lalique has been wholly owned by art & fragrance . 2 works edit sirene statuette hood ornament 1920 today lalique produces an array of luxury products in five main categories jewellery decorative items interior design perfumes and art. 1 the company is best known for the production of artistic glass works primarily using crystal lead glass since the mid twentieth century . the addition of perfumes in 1992 3 and non glass decorative items and art since 2011 3 are recent additions to lalique s product line . reproductions of designs by ren lalique have increased since 2009 . 2 from its founding until the 1900s 1910s lalique was one of france s foremost art nouveau jewellery designers . in the first two decades of the twentieth century lalique transitioned into one of the world s most renowned makers of artistic glass objects . during the first half of the twentieth century lalique produced perfume bottles vases about 300 designs hood ornaments 30 designs and decorative glass works such as inkwells bookends and paperweights . 2 4 lalique also designed several interiors incorporating copious amounts of glass including interiors for the ss paris the ss ile de france the ss normandie orient express railroad cars peace hotel shanghai oviatt building los angeles and st matthew s church jersey . 2 factory edit the company s sole production facility is the cristallerie lalique in wingen sur moder . it was opened in 1921 as the verrerie d alsace alsace glassworks and given its present name in 1962 . 5 references edit a b lalique more than a name . lalique . retrieved 16 june 2015 . founded over a century ago in 1888 lalique has endured as the ultimate symbol of french luxury ... lalique has five main categories jewelry decorative items interior design perfumes and art . a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r rene lalique a giant among giants . rlalique.com . archived from the original on 29 december 2014 . retrieved 16 june 2015 . a b c d e f g h lalique timeline . lalique . retrieved 16 june 2015 . a b c history of rene lalique glass . crystal classics . retrieved 16 june 2015 . lalique a unique and exceptional know how . youtube . lalique vietnam . 9 october 2014 . retrieved 16 june 2015 . the lalique factory was built in 1921 by the company s founder ren lalique in the village of wingen sur moder in alsace a region of france which has the strongest glassmaking traditions . it has remained to this day the world s sole lalique production facility . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lalique & oldid 732847512 categories glassmaking companiesglass trademarks and brandscompanies established in 18881888 establishments in francemanufacturing companies of francefrench brands navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 3 august 2016 at 16 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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