Magazine LALIQUE 2025

DECORATIVE OBJECTS

I n the beginning, there was the Earth. On the Earth, there was sand. When heated to very high temperatures, this mineral metamorphoses into crystal. With this in mind, Terramineral , Lalique’s latest collection, offers a sensation stripped back to its essentials. To be revealed with the first rays of the spring sun in 2025, this brand-new exploration, inspired by Earth, is the first in a cycle of collections from the crystal-making House, which will celebrate each of the four natural elements in turn. “In line with the purest naturalist approach of René Lalique, who founded the House in the late nineteenth century, I chose to work on a design that would express how powerful yet delicate the Earth can be,” explained Marc Larminaux, Artistic and Creative Director at Lalique. Vases, bowls, carafes, sculptures, votives, and candles cultivate striking contrasts to encapsulate that creative destruction, the oxymoron at the heart of the collection.

Living Earth Taking inspiration from the impressive frescos proffered by nature – soils rolling in eternal cycles, the Earth transformed with rock hewn into jagged volcanic peaks – this telluric energy was transposed into intensely poetic pieces: “I worked the faults in the Earth, digging through its rugged brightness,” Larminaux added. “The Earth carries memories, a fragile beauty formed by the breath of the elements and sculpted by the trickling of water, from which life is reborn.” Fitting, as these cracks, arid as they may seem, lead to new growth. Sketches became moulds, developed in secret thanks to Lalique’s remarkable expertise stretching back over 130 years.

THE TWO COLOURS CHOSEN FOR THIS COLLECTION, PERSEPOLIS BLUE AND CANYON, HARMONIOUSLY COMPLEMENT THE CLEAR CRYSTAL IN THIS TRIBUTE TO NATURE PAID BY THE CRYSTAL ARTISANS.

©Fabien Voileau

Poetic cracks and mineral faults Like soil in motion, this mineral mosaic has been frozen in crystal for eternity. Thus were born the two prodigious designs embodying the lines of the Terramineral collection. The first, a poetic crackled effect, mirrors a vast volcanic crater, soft soil slipping into a delicate mosaic, unearthing a remarkable visual carved out over time. As a true promise of new beginnings, this cracked earth yields new life as water trickles along its delicate furrows. The second, mineral faults, forms a series of artistic fractures bearing the marks of the Earth’s geological history, the very representation of its fallible power. “The challenge we had with the Lalique artisans in Alsace,” Larminaux continued, “was to show the Earth in its very essence, paying tribute to its well of creativity.” The two colours chosen for this collection, Persepolis blue and Canyon, harmoniously complement

the clear crystal in this tribute to nature paid by the crystal artisans.

©Fabien Voileau

© Hubert de Castelbajac

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