Skills and Techniques Pâte de Verre Eggshell Thin Technique

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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.

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