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All of this goes to show just how much the forty or so employees at Lalique’s new headquarters must feel at home at 30, rue de Prony. On the first floor, the Lalique Interior Design Studio has set up a showroom with a materials library, also displaying several of its interior design creations. Another magnificently restored room with angel mouldings is used for receptions. In the 1920s, when the Art Nouveau period’s floral motifs and arabesques gave way to geometric patterns, emblematic of the Art Deco period, Rouché immediately adapted his home’s ground-floor decoration to reflect this new spirit. A moving testament to modernity survives in the staircase, where a Cubist-style stained glass window by Louis Barillet, in which various musical instruments seem to be swaying in an ensemble, has pride of place. Today, Barillet’s black-framed panel meets in dialogue with the Art Deco Lauriers panels created by the Lalique Interior Design Studio, pointing the crystalline way up the stairs. The passage is also delineated by a liana, its shafts of light extending over ten metres, and featuring thirteen Champs-Élysées leaves – an iconic Lalique design inspired by the light skimming the trees on “the most beautiful avenue in the world” one fine autumn morning. At 30, rue de Prony, it seems that spring never ends.

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