Magazine LALIQUE 2025

HERITAGE

MARIE-CLAUDE ENDEAVOURED TO PURSUE, WITH PASSION, THE TYPE OF EXPRESSION ALREADY ADOPTED BY HER GRANDFATHER

MARC AND MARIE-CLAUDE The heirs

AND FATHER, A BLEND OF TRADITION AND RENEWAL.

BY CHRISTIE MAYER LEFKOWITH, official expert for Lalique SA

1900 was the decisive year in René Lalique’s life: the year when his creative genius became known all over the world; the year when he moved into his splendid mansion on Cours-la-Reine; and the year when his son Marc was born, on 1 September, ten weeks before the closure of the unforgettable Universal Exhibition in Paris, the apogee of his artistic career.

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