Sandrine: The intricacy of cutting and assembling the glass pieces just like a puzzle and that no piece is alike. I love the transparency glass offers and the endless colours, shades and textures of glass sheets available to choose from, depending on the project.

Matthias: When we renovate a piece we admire the work of the masters and try to understand the story being told. We always try to preserve the original parts and replace the damaged pieces as close to the original as possible.

Matthias: We still use many old techniques without which our work would not be complete. However, we use modern microscopes to help secure the different layers of paint and create designs on the computer. This modern technology is certainly an advantage to us.

Sandrine: People don’t realise all the time and steps needed to make a piece, from the drawing, to the real-sized model, cutting, painting, firing, assembling, glazing and soldering to secure the pieces in place. It is laborious but really worth it in the end.