The exciting agate glazing was developed for the creative design of a front door. The owners of a detached house in Hamburg wanted colorful, extravagant windows with agate stones.
The project required many individual glasses to create a luminous whole. The Tiffany technique offers many technical possibilities for combining different materials and was therefore used for this unique project.
Process
From sketches to production
The agate panes should have a certain thickness so that the light can pass through the door into the interior of the house particularly well.
Because the clients wanted cheerful colors, I chose expressive tones such as magenta, blue and creamy white. The symmetrical arrangement of the individual elements required a great deal of patience and craftsmanship in order to create an exciting surface with aesthetic appeal.
A copper foil is applied along the contour of the slices, which then joins the bricks together with the solder. Pewter can also be dyed with a patina in brown, black or copper, giving the seams an aged look.
