BIOT GLASSWARE - ECOMUSEUM
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Glass factory that produces bubble glasses, gathering every year from the 1st Friday of July of exclusive creative artists.
If Biot is considered today as the capital of glass in Provence, it is partly thanks to the Biot Glass Factory. Because the history of glass, it is here that it began under the leadership of Eloi Monod. In 1956, this ceramic engineer succeeded in mastering the bubble, thus turning a defect, the bubble, into a quality. He then created the Verrerie de Biot, where he developed the technique of bubbled glass, a thick glass in which air bubbles are trapped. This technique marks a turning point in the history of glass in Provence." Each bubble has a secret, a breath, a tradition," Eloi Monod likes to repeat.
More than 65 years later, the Biot glassworks, which was awarded the EPV (Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant) label in 2005, has become one of the most famous tourist sites on the Côte d'Azur: it welcomes nearly 500,000 visitors every year. You can discover the glassmakers' hall where a dozen master glassmakers blow and create unique objects before the eyes of visitors, the showroom which presents a collection of more than 300 models in bubble glass signed Biot (carafes, glasses, oil dispensers, cups, tumblers..) and exported throughout the world, the Glass Ecomuseum whose mission is to highlight and promote the glass tradition, as well as the International Glass Gallery which houses creations of internationally renowned artists, including the sculptures of the Biot master glassmaker, Jean-Claude Novaro.
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