Masque De Femme Lamp, Clear Crystal, Chrome Finish

The Masque de Femme panel created by René Lalique in 1935 embodies the imaginative power of its creator who was fascinated by women and nature. It reveals the face of a mysterious woman with delicate features, surrounded by an aquatic fauna. The masque de femme was created to adorn the Coutard fountain in 1935. Trained as a jeweler at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Paris in the late 1880's, Rene Lalique gained recognition as an independent designer for some of the era's great jewelry houses including Cartier and Boucheron. Eventually, he turned to glassmaking, and his techniques were a triumph for the Art Deco movement. Every piece of Lalique is finely detailed and produced by hand in Alsace, France.