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Horacio Villalobos
It was the talk of the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1900. A single brooch combining the female figure with that of an insect had the Parisian elite reeling, and they flooded René Lalique’s booth within the Jewellers’ Pavilion. Its open wings, made of fine opaline enamel and decorated with diamonds and moonstones, captivated viewers, while its griffin’s claws and chrysoprase female emerging from the mouth of a dragonfly left them speechless. Never had anyone seen jewelry so enchanting yet polarizing.
Rene Lalique’s Dragonfly Brooch debuted at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1900.
Horacio Villalobos
His presentation of the dragonfly-woman brooch and other hybrid designs at the Universal Exhibition has often been considered the crowning moment of René Lalique s career and what propelled him to the status of a master jeweler though Lalique wasn t the first decorator or jewelry aficionado to use the brooches as a way to express his cr ....

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