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" ... Upon René’s death in 1945, his son Marc instigated the shift from mid-range, utilitarian glass to high-end crystal, and the Lalique factory has only manufactured crystalware since. Crystal is glass containing at least 24 % lead oxide, the ingredient that gives it its weight, brilliance and sonority. Raw materials of silica, potash, lead oxide, cullet – and metal oxides for colored crystal such as cobalt oxide to obtain blue – are mixed in proportions that remain secret. With 230 employees including six with the highly-competitive title of Best Craftsman of France preserving ancestral savoir-faire, the 20,000-sqm factory produces half a million handcrafted items annually. It takes over a dozen years to qualify as a master glassmaker, and the finished product depends on the alchemy between the creative team’s sensibility and the artisans’ skills. Eleven in-house designers in Paris use traditional techniques such as drawing and modeling and new technologies thanks to digitalization and 3D printing before the production process begins. A single piece may require up to 40 different steps. Lalique painstakingly fabricates its own molds by machine then by hand before glassmakers in the hot glass workshops bring molten crystal in electric or pot furnaces to extremely high temperatures (1,400°C). After gathering, shaping, reheating and casting the crystal in the mold via various techniques (including blowing and pressing), they anneal it for one week, as otherwise the thermic shock would cause it to crack, shatter or explode. ... "