The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-16
A FAMOUS JEWEL ARTIST
Laque the New BenVenuO Celin-Setting the Fashion
in Ornaments For the World.

The most priced and splendid Jewels
that nave found their way into the cas-
kets of Drincesses and millionaires OF late
are from the studio of Rini LaIidue, art
list. inventor and worker in gems, ivory
and the precious metals. Women of the
smart set who had the good fortune
TO see the wonderful specimens of this
man work given Miss Julia Grant by
the. Prince Cantacuzene at the time Of
their wedding enjoyed a new emotion as
Well as revelation in the art of personal
adornment- This 'Benvenuto Cellini of to-
day is in no sense of the word a shop-
keeper. and the fashionable woman who
takes her annual trip to Paris this year
to md show cases filed with trinkets
made TO initiate his style will at once OBJ
serve what an immense influence his
originality of method has had upon the
trade. If she is determined to see the
interior of Lalique'S studio and talk with
a very interesting man she must seek
out some one who knows where he bides
IN the quiet side street, and go armed
with an introduction TO the gray house.
which bears beside the entrance door a
lier.
A French artisan in a long blouse
seeks the master while you look around
the room. In the center are two upright
cases. like those seen in museums, and
bv the windows a few tables with glass
tops. similar TO those ladies' AFFECT for
their drawing room curious. There is no
suspicion of the shopkeeper in ANYTHING
mere. This is an artists studio, and as
IaiQueS work appears only to the elect
his guests admire and choose their pur,
chaseS after the manner of pictures
Here they can see his methods and I'M
defStand Why il is that his work has
been admitted TO the salon among the
chef d'oevres of great painters and
sculptors.
Soon a young man. who looks very
ike Paul BOurget, comes in with a pleas
ant greeting, and listens modestly TO your
enthusiastic admiration of the spray of
fuchsias which nod like real flowers as
your footsteps jar the floor, and which
look quite as fragile as the real flowers
= Lahoue began life as a painter. but
his genius was for another branch of art
one much more rare than painting: there
fore he soon deserted The brush for his
present implements. He first did some
designing for a great American firm, but
longing Tor freedom TO execute his own
bold and original ideas, and now with a
most OF followers Gall Paris, ia fact)
croWding on his footsteps, he leads the
has 1eweler looked upon the metals and
gems as nothing but colorS for his palate
but TO Lalique's eyes gold, silver, precious
gems ana different Semi-DreciOus stones
and enamels are but materials which
bring 10 life the golden pictures OF his
fancy. He colOrs the metals, chips the
stones. mixes the cheap gems with the
expensive and makes Herewith priceless
works OF art Enamels take on new
hueS under his skilled fingers while ivory
and bone lend their dull colors to height
en- the effect of his creations. He colors
gold and carVeS the opal so marvelOusly
that comb for princess, made of dull
gray horn. becomes a stunning frame
leans against the side, holding a great
bunch of dropping pampas in her hand
Women. grass and delicate foliage in the
background are all miniature painting