ERIC BONTE

... With a team of about sixty people, the workshop creates all the stained glass windows of the Basilica in eighteen months, the most important order of stained glass in history, with 8,400 m2 of legendary and unanimously acclaimed stained glass. Under the direction of Eric Bonte, artists and technicians work for various projects throughout the world:The domes and ceiling of the Movenpick complex in Sharm el Sheikh, the zenith slope glazing in the Conference Centre of the Arab League in Sharm el Sheikh, the canopies and ceilings of the Flo Brewery in Strasbourg, of the Rostang restaurant in Paris, of the Grand Café des Capucines and Convention in Paris, of the Grand Café de l’Univers in Saint Quentin, etc., and a great number of domes or ceilings for private residences in Kuwait, Jeddah, Oman, Tokyo, Vevey, Luxembourg, Paris, Saint Petersburg, etc. Eric Bonte’s passion drives him to create an endless array of light, colour, material, always emphasising the artistic and technical quality of his creations, respectful of an ancestral French know-how which he perfectly knows how to renew and modernise, much to his clients’ satisfaction and amazement. Domes of all sizes have been made for over thirty years; they majestically adorn interiors worldwide. France is reputed for traditional stained glass, and Eric Bonte embodies an additional facet of its know-how. Eric Bonte offers outstanding work: artistic and technical quality of stained or engraved glass, quality materials and good taste for ornamental detail of frames. The domes of the master glassmaker have a soul. Subtleties of colour, harmony of tones, shimmering of light. Eric Bonte’s domes are unique pieces that illuminate the interiors and participate in the radiation of colours of the place that welcomes them. The refinement of works of art combined with subtle and sumptuous interior decoration.