Welcome in our fusing studio, a place for glass and colors.
mari & femme is a glass design workshop.
Here are our collections made of all works already realized in fusing.
We also suggest you study a custom-made object for yourself.
Finally, we can create the object you have imagined.
Designers and manufacturers, the workshop mari & femme is located in FRANCE at Irigny in the Métrolpole of Lyon. It was created in 1996 in the occasion of a stained-glass creation for the parish church of Vaïtapé in Bora-Bora, French Polynesia.
Bernadette Epitalon and her husband Matthieu Chauvin met at the
Beaux Arts; they are graduates of the Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts
of Saint-Etienne and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts
Décoratifs of Paris.
Together, they have acquired cross-skills in drawing, engraving, and
computer graphics, as well as good knowledge of ceramic and glass
kilns; since 1995, they create and manufacture in fusing (fused
glass) to the scale of stained glass, furniture, crockery or
jewellery and have progressively integrated the industrial
techniques of shaping the glass and casting precious metals.
Works after works, they seek, each on their own, an honest, lasting
and benevolent expression to bring “a little beauty and sweetness
that each of us so desperately needs”.
Bernadette and Matthew’s plastic activities explore engraving,
ceramics, painting, video and infographic.
They bring to the projects the creative capacity, the spirit of
innovation and a reflection on contemporary art: the stakes of
abstraction and figuration. Bernadette and Matthew have worked a lot
on figuration and portraiture as an antidote to the intellectualism
often austere of contemporary art.
The mari & femme workshop is part of the craft movement, a
family in which design is always related to manufacturing. These
designers makers produce unique pieces and small series in their
workshops with a real concern for quality, seriousness and customer
respect.
Bernadette Epitalon after a diploma in engraving at the Ecole
Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, went study the
fresco in Milan. Since then, she paints with oil protraits,
landscapes and still life after nature.
After several years of glass work in the workshop MARI & FEMME,
Bernadette launches the ATELIER EPITALON to market exclusively her
jewelry. She has been designing and creating glass rings, loops and
pendants for this brand since 2010.
Inspired by nature, jewels are simple, timeless, uncluttered.
Delicateness, patient work of shapes and colors are at the origin of
her unique creations in noble materials: glass, gold, platinum,
silver.
The jewels are all made one by one, manufactured and assembled by
hand in her workshop in Irigny in the Lyon region in France. To
accompany the success of his rings, Berndadette made an original
adjustable ring in solid silver in her design.
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the website ATELIER EPITALON.
Son of an architect and educated in the love of drawing, Matthew
began his studies at the Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts in
Saint-Etienne and pursued them at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where he graduated in 1986 in the
specialty of video and animation.
Married in 1987 with Bernadette met at the Beaux-Arts. They will
have 6 children between 1988 and 2003.
His activity starts with video in Paris at the opening of the Grande
Halle de la Villette then in ads films as assistant director. He
quickly became an independent director and in 1992 starts with the
families archives films. He directed, at the same time, many
institutional films.
From the years 2010 he focused on scientific documentaries.
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the film website.
In 1995, after the birth of the third child, the family left
Vincennes to settle in Millery near Lyon. This is where the
adventure of glass and stained glass begins.
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Our customers are companies, architects, resale shops and individuals.
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Our fusing workshop is located in the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region, in
the Métropole de Lyon, in Irigny.
We are always on appointment.
mailing address : Villa BAGATELLE, 70 rue de Selettes, 69540 IRIGNY -
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