Description

Specialties

• Art Deco Jewelry
• Retro Jewelry

1854

• Hendricks Lacloche is married and starts his family.
• All of his six surviving children end up in the jewelry trade.

1892

• Léopold and Jules Lacloche leave Brussels and found Lacloche Frères at 51 rue de Châteaudun, Paris.
• Jacques and Fernand Lacloche sail for New York.

1895

• Jacques and Fernand return from America and found Lacloche & Cie in Madrid.
• They sell jewelry designed and produced in Paris.

1896

• Lacloche & Cie has a shop in Biarritz and opens another in San Sebastian, Spain.

1897

• Walewyk-Lacloche opens in Madrid. They specialize in bridal baskets and hosiery. Bertha Lacloche (a younger sister) is the wife of Jacob Jacques Walewyk.
• Walewyk-Lacloche has shops in Biarritz and San Sebastian.

1898

• Leopold and Jules open Lacloche-Gompers with Louis Gompers at rue de l’Opéra in Paris later moving to Place Vendôme.
• Soon they have shops in Aix-les-Bains, Monaco, Nice, Trouville, and Ostend Belgium.

1900

• Jacques Lacloche, age 35, was killed in a train derailment leaving a pregnant wife and young child.

1901

• New Lacloche Frères store at rue de la Paix, Paris.
• Lacloche Freres-Gompers is dissolved.

1900

• Émilie Lacloche, married to Joseph Cohen (Coven), open Coven Lacloche on rue de la Paix, Paris.
• They win an honorary grand diploma at the Universal and Internation Exposition in Liège, 1905.
• Eventually, they open a store in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1904

• Acquired Streeter & Co. on Bond St. in London along with the inventory including the Agra Diamond.

1905

• The Agra diamond is sold through Christie’s on February 22 to Max Meyer.

1907

• Walewyk-Lacloche in Madrid is outfitting the future heir of the Spanish crown.
• Lacloche Freres becomes Anciens établissments Lacloche Frères owned by Léopold, Jules, and Fernand wholesale and retail jewelers.

1914

• Lacloche Frères in Nice is closed.

1917

• Lacloche Frères buys  Carl Fabergé’s inventory in London so Fabergé can repatriate their overseas capital. The London branch of Fabergé closes.

1919

• Jacques Jr. joins the firm in Paris.
• Eventually, he will run the London operation.

1921

• Death of Léopold Lacloche, age 58.

1922

• Henri and Jacques  Lacloche, sons of Fernand, move to New York and open offices at 665 Fifth Ave.

1923

• Lacloche Frères opens in Deauville for the summer season. The store remains until the close of the 1920s.

1924

• Lacloche Frères opens in Cannes.

1925

• Lacloche Frères awarded a Grand Prix at the Exposition internationale des artes décoratifs et industriels modernes. 

1929

• Lacloche Frères exhibits at the Arts de la bijouterie, joaillerie et orfèverie at the Musée Galliera, Paris.

1930

• Lacloche Frères is commissioned to create the Westminster Tiara which, among its 284 diamonds, includes the Arcot I and ArcotII diamonds.

1931

• The bankruptcy of the Société anonyme des anciens établissments Lacloche Frères announced in June.
• A la rue de la Paix (at the former address of Coven-Lacloche) is opened by one of the “Jacques”

1932

• Four businesses owned by Lacloche are sold under a court order including rue de la Paix, Cannes, Deauville, and Biarritz.
• The Stock held in England was sold to the Stone Richardson & Somerford Group.
• Death of Fernand Lacloche, March 22.

1933

• Nephew, Jacques Lacloche starts an eponymous business.

1934

• Lacloche Frères reappears in London, directors unknown.
• Jacques Lacloche provides goods to the firm for three years.

1936

• Jacques showcases his jewelry in Cannes.

1937

• Jacques Lacloche’s designs, exhibited in Paris at the Exposition internationale des arts et techniques,  are noticed by the New York Times.

1938

• Jacques opens a salon at Place Vendôme and one in Cannes.

1939

• Jacques was noted along with other major French luxury firms in L’Illustration for his items at the New York World’s Fair.

1944

• Gestapo arrests Jacques Lacloche and imprisons him in a Montfleury villa. His release is secured by his friend Audrée Basax.

1945

• Jacques marries Audrée.
• They have a son named Francis.

1949

• Jacques Lacloche moved the Cannes location to Palais des Festivals.

1954

• Jacques becomes the first jeweler to create a perfume, No.1.

1956

• Jacques creates a clip brooch and earrings for the new Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly.

1963

• Jean Dinh Van has a solo exhibition at Jacques Lacloche’s Place Vendôme location.

1965 & 1966

• Exhibitions of contemporary furnishings are held at the Place Vendôme location.

1967

• Jacques leaves the jewelry business to devote himself to “utilitarian creation” and the Place Vendôme
• Shop closes.

1968

• The Cannes location changes the name to Galerie J. Lacloche Édition. and exhibits jewelry by other artists.

1974

• Francis Lacloche works with his father on his art exhibitions until they close the Jacques Lacloche gallery in 1982.

1999

• Death of Jacques Lacloche.

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