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<p>[QUOTE="ritzyvintage, post: 3465859, member: 18191"]Pierre D'Avesn, was a master genius in more ways than one. Not only did he design and work for Rene Lalique (aged at just 14 years old) he was instrumental with the development of press moulded glass techniques during the Art Deco period. By the age of 21 he was producing designs for Daum (as their Artistic Manager) and then before reaching 29 years he took over the management of Verlys. Most of is opalescent glass was produced at <i>Choisy-le-roi </i>and shown below is just one of his incredible examples that he produced as a freelance working artist. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is not known how many designs D'Avesn produced, however I have been fortunate enough to own at least 50 examples and his entire repertoire runs into the hundreds many of which he received no credit for. Well into is 90s he was still designing glass for Sevres... </p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]303482[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]303483[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]303484[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"> </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ritzyvintage, post: 3465859, member: 18191"]Pierre D'Avesn, was a master genius in more ways than one. Not only did he design and work for Rene Lalique (aged at just 14 years old) he was instrumental with the development of press moulded glass techniques during the Art Deco period. By the age of 21 he was producing designs for Daum (as their Artistic Manager) and then before reaching 29 years he took over the management of Verlys. Most of is opalescent glass was produced at [I]Choisy-le-roi [/I]and shown below is just one of his incredible examples that he produced as a freelance working artist. It is not known how many designs D'Avesn produced, however I have been fortunate enough to own at least 50 examples and his entire repertoire runs into the hundreds many of which he received no credit for. Well into is 90s he was still designing glass for Sevres... [CENTER][ATTACH=full]303482[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303483[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]303484[/ATTACH] [/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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