Rene Lalique was a major player in the Art Deco and Art Nouveau movements, with his experimental designs in jewellery, glassware and architecture.

His Inspirations that inspired his jewellery and glass-work where Snakes and swallows, pincones and orchids, ice and snow. He tried to capture the motion of movement in his works if it was the arcs of swooping swallows to the patterns of schools of fish deep beneath the ocean.

His use of unusual natural materials that where slightly deformed where placed next to the brilliant sapphires or diamonds to heighten the effect of the stones.