In 2023, Aurélia Leblanc and Lucile Viaud were invited by Ruinart to create “Drapé de verre”, an original monumental piece that takes up the challenge of weaving champagne bottles of different vintages.

Immersed in the history of the House, they develop an organic, round, geometric universe, where the line sometimes slips in. Throughout the film, in dialogue with woollen threads echoing the historic material of the sheets, they use the colors of the bottle glass metamorphosed into threads in a gradient motif ranging from the slats used to age the bottles to the engravings found on the walls of the crayères.

A carte blanche by committed chef Nicolas Conraux (La Butte, Plouider), pêche cristalline tells the story of an early-morning fishing trip in northern Finistère. Thread after thread, a gradation over 4 meters long takes shape between threads of linen and threads of Glaz marine glass, sculpted with a unique motif that sets in motion a net where fish skins emerge and sparkle.

The combined skills of Aurélia Leblanc and Lucile Viaud have created a new material, glass weaving. Interweaving supple Verre Marin Glaz weft and metallic warp threads, the textile work features light-sculpted aquatic motifs in iridescent blue and golden-green hues. Verre Marin Glaz is the first glass developed by Atelier Lucile Viaud from microalgae and oyster or abalone shells that can be worked using traditional glassmaking techniques. Like the wave that deforms the surface of the water, it's the pattern developed here that animates the surface of the weave, taking us back to the origins of this extraordinary glass and to seascapes. From time immemorial, humans have sought their reflection, first on the surface of water, then in the polish of stone or metal, and finally through glass. Confluence plays with this heritage and the fascination of this material in its environment, seeking to confuse the eye through the discrepancy between supple material and the impression of rigidity given by the shine of this woven glass surface. The “floating” effect of the weave echoes the pattern left in the sand when the water recedes at low tide. The fabric itself symbolizes water in its movement, thanks to the pleating, folding and volumizing possibilities of the material.