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Rene Lalique was a major player in the Art Deco and Art
Nouveau movements, with his experimental designs in
jewellery, glassware and architecture.
His Inspirations that inspired his jewellery and glass-work
where Snakes and swallows, pincones and orchids, ice
and snow. He tried to capture the motion of movement
in his works if it was the arcs of swooping swallows to the
patterns of schools of fish deep beneath the ocean.
His use of unusual natural materials that where slightly
deformed where placed next to the brilliant sapphires or
diamonds to heighten the effect of the stones.
However as night falls and the lights are turned on, something
beautiful emerges from the decay Like a rose growing from
a grave. Although Lapis is in social degeneration, There
is something fascinating to see here when the life-switch
is flicked on in the city and the eccentric and troubled
inhabitants come out to fill their desires and habits.