Lalique Magazine 2026_ENG

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CABOCHON, the Reinvented Icon

Its perfect roundness, born from a child’s wish, has travelled through a century. In 2026, Lalique reinvents its jewellery icon, offering it new forms of expression. It is a return to the roots of a House whose founder was “the inventor of modern jewellery.”

fashion trends and stylistic shifts. Where so many crea tions faded into oblivion, Cabochon asserted itself as an object whose form refuses to age. Today, nearly a century later, Lalique has chosen to rein vent it without betraying it. For Spring–Summer 2026, three new pieces of jewellery pay tribute to René Lalique’s original design while proposing new ways to wear this miniature sculpture: as earrings, a double-wrap leather bracelet and a pendant. The ring itself now comes in nine teen shades.

“Then you’ll make me a ring with the most beautiful blue in the world.” These words were spoken in 1931 by one of René Lalique’s granddaughters. The request was as much a plea as a challenge: how does one set a celestial vault? How can the azure be crystallised in a ring? The artist, at the height of his fame, let his imagination flare. He de signed a cabochon of radical elegance: a glass half-sphere, smooth as a pebble polished by the sea. No claws, just a glimmer held captive within the material. That ring endured. It survived the Second World War,

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