François Décorchemont
François Décorchemont , born the May 26th 1880 with Conches-in-Ouche where he died in 1971, was a ceramist and main glassmaker French.
After having studied with the National school of Decorative Arts, it carried out many objects in Molten glass which brought notoriety to him. He invented a new matter, the crystal paste. Enthusiastic Christian, it is by attending the church of his village, equipped with superb stained glasses of the Renaissance, which to him the idea had just applied its technique to the art of the stained glass.
He carried out the stained glasses Holy-Odile church in Paris, of two churches in the Cantal (Albepierre and Fressange) and of almost thirty churches in the the Eure, his department. Its work is characterized by a purified drawing, with the single circuit lines and by the glare, the transparency and the luminosity of the colors.
François Décorchemont is the grandfather of the glassmakers Antoine Leperlier and Etienne Leperlier.
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