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Lumière
Atelier

Museum-quality stained glass · Lyon since 1987

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Where Light
Weds Glass

In the heart of Lyon’s 2nd arrondissement, where the Rône bends toward the Mediterranean, Lumière Atelier has spent nearly four decades transforming sheets of colored glass into architectural poetry. We do not make windows. We sculpt light itself — capturing the fleeting quality of dawn on the Alps, the deep jade of lichen on ancient stone, the exact amber that pools in a cathedral at vespers.

Every piece that leaves our atelier carries the mark of hands that have learned, through twenty thousand hours of lead and copper foil, that glass does not merely transmit light. It remembers it. It holds the memory of fire and flame, of sand fused in the belly of a furnace, of colour born from minerals and accident.

Our work adorns private chapels and parliamentary chambers, museum restoration projects and the front doors of people who simply understand that a room without light is a room without soul.

“We don’t design installations. We negotiate between light and material until they reach an agreement.”
— Margaux Delacroix, Founder & Artistic Director

From First
Light to Final Fit

01

Atelier Visit

You visit us in our Lyon workshop. We drink coffee, you describe the space, and we begin to see the light together. This conversation — never rushed, never billed — is where every piece is born.

02

Design & Mapping

We produce detailed drawings, colour studies on actual glass, and, for larger commissions, a 1:1 cardboard mock-up. You hold the design in your hands. You feel its weight, its transparency, its truth.

03

Cutting & Firing

Our cutters select each pane by hand — no two sheets of ruby red are identical. Coloured glass is fused in our kiln at 700°C, creating glass with depth that painted surfaces can never achieve.

04

Assembly & Caming

Using traditional H-soldering or copper foil, we assemble each piece. The lead caming is not merely structural — its patina, its colour, its weight is chosen to complement the glass it holds.

05

Installation

Our team installs each piece in person. We fit, we adjust, we test the light at different hours of the day. A stained glass installation is not finished until the light agrees with it.

Pieces That
Bear Light

2024

The Azure Vault

Cathedral of Saint-Jean, Lyon
Tracery window, leaded glass with cobalt and gold leaf

2023

Verdant Passage

Conservatoire de Paris, Grand Foyer
32-panel screen, emerald iridescent glass

2023

Candlelight Archive

Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris
Reading room lantern, amber dichroic with hand-blown opal

2022

Cardinal’s Breath

Château de Chenonceau, Loire Valley
Stairwell installation, ruby flash glass with acid-etched details

2022

Twilight Codex

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Twelve-panel triptych, violet cathedral glass with silver stain

2021

Horizon Meridian

Palais du Parlement, Lyon
Apse window, millefiori cane with flashed ruby and gold ruby

Begin the
Conversation

Lumière Atelier

42 Rue Mercière

69002 Lyon, France

 

By appointment only

 

atelier@lumiere-atelier.fr

+33 (0)4 78 42 19 87