Design, Fabrication, and Text by Shin-ichi and Kimiake Higuchi
The techniques used by French Art Nouveau artists Décorchement and Dammouse resulted in delicate glass art pieces with eggshell-thin walls. Shin-ichi Higuchi was allowed to observe the work of Dammouse first-hand by Kitazawa Museum of Art and shares his experiments with ways to reproduce these techniques in modern-day glass art.
This article was originally published on page 30 of the November/December 2014 issue of Glass Art.