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 the glass capital of Provence today, it's thanks in part to the Verrerie de Biot. The history of glass began here, under the leadership of Eloi Monod. In 1956, this ceramics engineer succeeded in mastering bubbles, turning a defect - bubbles - into a quality. He then created Verrerie de Biot, where he developed the technique of bubble glass, a thick glass in which air bubbles are trapped. This technique marked a turning point in the history of glassmaking in Provence. "Each bubble, a secret, a breath, a tradition", Eloi Monod likes to repeat.
More than 65 years later, the Verrerie de Biot, awarded the EPV (Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant) label in 2005, has become one of the most famous tourist sites on the Côte d'Azur, welcoming almost 500,000 visitors every year. There's the glassmakers' hall, where a dozen master glassmakers blow and create unique objects before visitors' very eyes, and the showroom, featuring a collection of over 300 Biot-branded bubble-glass models (carafes, glasses, oilers, cups, tumblers..) that are exported worldwide, the Glass Ecomuseum, whose mission is to showcase and promote the tradition of glassmaking, and the International Glass Gallery, which houses creations by internationally renowned artists, including sculptures by Biot master glassmaker Jean-Claude Novaro.
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