Created in 1929 and 1931
Founded in 1858, the famous couture house, Worth, branched out into perfume in the 1920s. In 1924, René Lalique designed the poetic Dans la nuit (In the night) bottle that met with huge success, and the following year designed a door made of glass, black marble and nickel-plated steel for the Worth store on the Croisette in Cannes.
In 1929 and 1931, Lalique’s green bottle for Sans adieu (No goodbye) and blue for Je reviens (I return) were explicit evocations of the skyscrapers that were going up across the Atlantic. A poster featuring seven different bottles was clearly inspired by the New York skyline immortalised by the photographs of Paul Haviland, René Lalique’s son-in-law, around 1904.
