Amélie Péret creates collections of jewelry in glass beads with a blowtorch. She adds gold and silver and uses the oxidation-reduction principle for material effects. Trained by great master glassmakers, Amélie Péret embodies French know-how, with her jewelry that combines glass, precious materials and a sought-after design for unique pieces.
“I have ideas that come to me like that. There are things that are very beautiful in mind, at night, and it will take a long time to work to get the result which will be different but which will be very good”
Amélie Péret, torch glassmaker and founder of Alkemia creations
” Alkémia is about the alchemy of matter. The fusion of certain materials depending on the heat, gas and oxygen provided, we do not necessarily obtain the same results each time. »
Amélie Péret, after university studies wanted to embody the breath in her first wooden sculptures. Learning, studies and some trips to Africa and Asia allowed him to create ornaments. Unique lampwork glass bead jewelry. Little by little the jewel imposed itself and its sculptures became smaller.
Work the alchemy of matter
Working glass for Amélie Péret is a question of formulas.
“ Glass is nothing but silica, so anything is possible. There is a limit in the material that must be found in order to be able to work on it. After a study of lands, sands, a study also of colored glasses. For example certain iron oxides which make green like the bottle of wine. The interest is to work on the alchemy of the material, depending on its cooking, its heating, the oxygen brought to the flame to melt these materials, the colors change. We call this the principle of oxidation or reduction of oxides. I have my little notebook like recipes. At the beginning to reproduce, for example a pair of earrings, the colors have to be identical, so I have my recipes and then gradually it’s like a good cake, we no longer read the recipe, we know it by heart “, precise Amelie Peret.
Glass jewelry and knives
Amélie Péret designs jewelry and glass knives. An invention made with four hands with his companion cutler
“Glass can be razor sharp. We have developed a glass knife combining metal, glass, sometimes wood. The difficulty are the expansion coefficients of the material. You have to anneal the metal, like glass, and find the limit of the materials so that they can accept each other “, concludes Amélie Péret.
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