Prominent businesses similar to silverware agency Christofle, glass designer René Lalique, and the jewellers Louis Cartier and Boucheron started designing products in additional fashionable kinds. Beginning in 1900, department stores recruited decorative artists to work in their design studios. The ornament Art Galery of the 1912 Salon d’Automne was entrusted to the department retailer Printemps, and that yr it created its personal workshop, Primavera. Other designers, including Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann and Paul Follot, refused to use mass manufacturing, insisting that each piece be made individually.
