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Project Name: Lalique Cactus Coffee Table

Location: France

Date completed: September 2021

Designer: Lalique

Developer: Lalique

Lalique is a heritage brand established over 130 years ago by Rene Lalique. Today, it is constantly modernising and collaborating, and so positioning them as a true lifestyle brand, which encompasses art, decorative items, perfume, hotels and hospitality, jewellery, and interior design. The Cactus table, designed in 1951 is an iconic Lalique design. It seamlessly blends into the most creative and contemporary interior design spaces. Now issued as a coffee table and new for AW 2021, its roundness and disruptive geometry celebrates the creative genius of the great Lalique glass artists.

The piece is a modernised take on the classic Cactus Table. Its contemporary reimagination as a coffee table allows this piece in any of its varieties to be a statement addition to any interior space. The recreation brings the table into modern spaces whilst simultaneously holding the timelessness and sophistication of the 1951 design, and positions it as something to be handed down through the generations. The classic shapes and design are at the core of the piece, maintaining the roundness and disruptive geometry of the original table, but transporting these into a new shape as a coffee table. It seamlessly blends into the most creative interior design spaces: sublime crystal in prolific magnificence. The crystal volutes follow the rhythm of light, drowning the eye in its depths.

This majestic table embodies the creative genius and unique expertise of the glass masters. To participate in the fashioning of this exceptional artwork, a craftsman must have received the distinction of Best Craftsmen of France. Successfully bringing together talent, timing, and temperature, six dedicated glass masters combine an exceptional mastery of modern technique and traditional skill throughout the complex process involved in crafting these luxurious pieces. In the hot glass workshops, it takes eight to ten weeks of handwork to craft each of the eight legs, starting from 18 kg of crystal.