Stained glass, Saint Joseph Church, Le Havre, France
Perret brought in his previous colleague Marguerite Huré (1896-1967) for the stained glass in the new church. Huré developed a style using colour to convey her desired theme, much in the way music conveys feeling via sound. The octagonal column that makes up the majority of the tower is separated into 18 layers, each side of layers 2 to 17 exhibits an identical, geometric pattern made of wood and elongated stained glass. Huré used the “antique” glass making technique of mouth-blowing the coloured glass to achieve the desired shape.
Using a selection of seven primary colours (orange, yellow, green, purple, red, greenish and white), Huré manipulated each base colour to make a total of fifty different hues. The bottom of the tower has the strongest harmonized hues that gradually lighten on the way to the top giving the impression that the light comes from above, through the lighter glass. The overall feel of this tower is that of being in a kaleidoscopic tunnel whose colours converge to create a “symphonic poem”.
Stained glass, Saint Joseph Church, Le Havre, France
Perret brought in his previous colleague Marguerite Huré (1896-1967) for the stained glass in the new church. Huré developed a style using colour to convey her desired theme, much in the way music conveys feeling via sound. The octagonal column that makes up the majority of the tower is separated into 18 layers, each side of layers 2 to 17 exhibits an identical, geometric pattern made of wood and elongated stained glass. Huré used the “antique” glass making technique of mouth-blowing the coloured glass to achieve the desired shape.
Using a selection of seven primary colours (orange, yellow, green, purple, red, greenish and white), Huré manipulated each base colour to make a total of fifty different hues. The bottom of the tower has the strongest harmonized hues that gradually lighten on the way to the top giving the impression that the light comes from above, through the lighter glass. The overall feel of this tower is that of being in a kaleidoscopic tunnel whose colours converge to create a “symphonic poem”.