THE GENIUS OF RENÉ LALIQUE AND ART NOUVEAU

If Jewels Could Talk with Carol Woolton

Carol Woolton

Arts, Fashion & Beauty

9.6 • 42 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Carol is back for season six! To kick things off, she has a wide-ranging conversation about René Lalique and the art nouveau movement. This coincides with a new exhibition of Lalique's drawings at the A La Vielle Russie gallery in New York. Carol is joined by the gallery's managing director Adam Patrick, and one of the world's foremost Lalique experts, Mark Waller.

You can find information about the exhibition here... https://www.alvr.com/9762/rene-lalique-drawings-exhibition/

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Fully Gemstones.
0:09.5	He was a very patient man, and he thought that French decorative art should move gradually, not radical change.
0:17.8	Although he made radical change.
0:19.5	Yeah, he did, but he thought that that was,
0:21.4	I think he thought that was enough. But no one could come after him and make radical change.
0:26.2	Yeah, well, he was also a pretty good businessman, too. I'm Carol Horton, the voice of jewelry.
0:33.1	Welcome to if jewels could talk. I'm an author and broadcastercaster and the woman who initiated the role of jewelry editor at magazines like Tatler and Vogue.
0:44.2	This is a podcast for everyone, for people who do like jewelry, for people who don't realize they like jewelry, and anyone intrigued by fascinating facts, new ideas and forgotten histories.
0:55.8	So join me as I tell sparkly tales and meet all sorts of people,
1:00.2	delving into four centuries of jewellery culture,
1:03.2	and investigate what's happening now.
1:19.8	Welcome back to If Jules Could Talk, and I'm so happy that we have a sparkling new season ahead of us.
1:23.6	We'll be here every second Thursday from today.
1:30.0	And I've been traveling to Paris, to Los Angeles, to track down the best stories for you.
1:37.6	Today we're kicking off with a story from New York. We are going to be talking about the Art Nouveau movement and specifically the genius of the movement, that is René Lalique.
1:48.9	To seek beauty was a more worthy aim for him than the display of luxury.
1:57.7	This coincides with a spectacular exhibition at La Vieux in New York of his drawings.
2:02.4	Not only are they just drawings by his hand, he's actually annotated on them by the side, as we'll find out later in his handwriting. And this is on at the New York Gallery of Lafay
2:08.9	Rousseau-Roussey until March the 15th. So I am delighted to welcome the two experts behind this exhibition, who've been studying the man, his life and his work between them for about 80 years.
2:25.2	So first of all, I'd like to welcome Adam Patrick, who is the director and manager of La Vieuxie, who's studied La L'Aiqueik and sold Lalik jewellery for over 30 years.
2:35.8	Adam, thank you very much for joining us.
2:37.6	That's a great pleasure. Thanks for having us.
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