The Ombelles designs feature lightness, evanescence and modernity. The purity of crystal echoes the sober lines of the slender flowers. As if rocked by the wind, the transparent blossoming scintillates on the satin finished crystal. 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.