Domaine de Boisbuchet

Domaine de Boisbuchet, France
September 2 - 12, 2009
Liquid Fusion Workshop at Boisbuchet 2009

The Corning Museum of Glass provided two workshops at the design retreat center, Domaine de Boisbuchet, located in Lessac, France. The first was Liquid Fusion, led by architect, designer and educator Paul Haigh. This glass design exploration workshop focusing on the ephemeral and sublime qualities of glass as a rich palette for innovation and intervention. Emphasis was placed on the idea of ‘...glass as a liquid’ in exploring an ancient material that can transform process into poetry...   The second was a class using a unique type of wood-fired kiln to simultaneously fire ceramics and melt glass for glassblowing.

Designers

Paul Haigh was born in England in 1949. He completed his B.A. at Leeds Polytechnic in 1972, and he received his master’s degree (M.Des.) from the Royal College of Art, London in 1975. He immigrated to the United States in 1978 to design f... more

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