[1] Lalique is best known for producing glass art, including perfume bottles, vases, and hood ornaments during the early twentieth century.

[2] René Lalique (1860–1945) began his career as a jewellery apprentice at the age of 16, and by 1881 he was a freelance designer for many of the best-known Parisian jewellers.

[3] In 1887, Lalique opened a business on Rue du Quatre-Septembre, and registered the "RL" mark the following year.

[3][4] In 1905, Lalique opened a new shop at Place Vendôme which exhibited not only jewellery, but glass works as well.

Today, Lalique produces an array of luxury products in five main categories: jewellery, decorative items, interior design, perfumes, and art.

In the first two decades of the twentieth century, Lalique transitioned into one of the world's most renowned makers of artistic glass objects.

[3][5] Sometimes collaborating with his daughter Suzanne Lalique,[7] Lalique also designed several interiors, incorporating copious amounts of glass, including interiors for: the SS Paris, the SS Ile de France, the SS Normandie, Orient Express railroad cars, Peace Hotel (Shanghai), Oviatt Building (Los Angeles), and St Matthew's Church (Jersey).