When Boisbuchet's workshops started 30 years ago, the Domaine's chateau has been a dormant beauty for many years. Its countless beautiful interior objects had disappeared and the building was left naked as a backdrop for our fantasy.

In our workshop the participants together with Anton Alvarez are going to realize an amazing chandelier which formerly could have illuminated the ball room. In a collaborative effort engaging the technicians of the Corning Museum of Glass we'll work on this piece in order to recreate the lost chandelier - the most grandiose, expressive, colourful, and richly textured object ever created in Boisbuchet's wonderland.

We are going to explore our intuition and see what happens when hands make their decisions before the mind and vice versa. Using methods such as whisper games building, blind building, or speed building, we are going to generate unexpected results that let go any preconceived ideas and expectations.

The main focus of our week is glass and the magic it unfolds from the moment it melts until it gets hard again to glow in the light. However, our chandelier will also be composed of other materials such as cork, soil, textiles, thread, sticks, dust, leafs, sand, wood, metal, flour, yeast, water, tomatoes, foam… We'll explore wood, plaster, and clay moulds for glass blowing and even try how different minerals and organic materials react on hot glass.

At the end of our week we'll install the chandelier back at the chateau and, of course, celebrate it's renaissance.