Atelier Cocoroca

Founded by Raphaëlle Collette, Atelier Cocoroca brings together traditional glassmaking techniques and contemporary design.

Based in Asnières-sur-Seine, the workshop designs and restores glass decorations for institutions, designers, architects and private individuals. Certified Qualité Confiance by the CMA d’Île-de-France, it has worked on projects ranging from the Cartier building in Brussels to the Lapérouse hotel in Nice.

Each project becomes a field of research. Using traditional techniques—cutting, painting, engraving, fusing, thermoforming, pâte de verre and lampworking (in collaboration with Valérie Vayre)—the glass is transformed to meet the specific requirements of a place, a light, a story. Far from being a simple motif, stained glass becomes a sensitive surface, a vehicle for emotion and atmosphere.

The workshop is currently developing a gallery of modular motifs, designed as a living library for specifiers. The compositions play with transparency, colour and volume, exploring the third dimension to make glass an architectural element in its own right. At Cocoroca, light passes through the material to reveal it more fully. A stained glass practice that gently balances memory and invention, where each piece becomes a space for contemplation.•

photos : Epione project for Friedmann & Versace studio, Atelier Cocoroca © Laurence Martin Wilder