LSB Workshop

Behind the initials LSB we can make the encounter of Louis and Silvie Brière, born in a family of master glassmakers going back four generations, who have passed on their knowledge to them. In 1983, Silvie entered the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the painting section, while Louis took over the Atelier Brière in 1995. Today, Louis holds a position of responsibility at Ateliers Duchemin, where he is involved in numerous artists’ stained-glass projects and the restoration of heritage stained-glass windows, while Silvie works as a painter in the South of France.

Both grew up in a 19th-century workshop where their parents designed and produced stained glass. Hundreds of models, drawings, engravings, glass of every color, the smell of materials of all kinds, are forever etched in their imaginations. The Brière family made their living from stained glass. Their most famous creations include “La Coupole du Printemps” and Jean Cocteau’s stained-glass windows in Metz.

LSB was born of Louis and Silvie’s strong desire to re-question their origins. They wanted to combine their knowledge and their undeniable complementary skills. Together, they created an artwork using contemporary glass painting and ancestral technique developed by master glassmakers. It consists in using grisaille for the drawing and enamels for the coloring, and a contemporary way of painting. The painted piece then undergoes several firings in a 630° kiln.

The series named Opus is the result of Silvie’s observation of the medallion traditionally incorporated into a stained-glass window, and the transposition of her pictorial expression onto glass.