Colour lives only in the glass.
A small studio on the harbour, blowing glass since 2019. Around our objects the room stays quiet — the colour happens inside.
This backdrop is white. The colour is a hidden field, reaching you only through refraction. Move your cursor — the field follows. Press the glass to see it bare.
Nothing here is painted. No pigment sits on a surface.
Colour at VERRE is cased inside the wall of each object — light enters clear, bends, and leaves changed.
We make thirty to forty objects a year, each blown once and never repeated. Most weeks, the furnace outnumbers us. We think that ratio is correct.
Objects
Spring firing · 2026 · Six pieces remainEvery piece ships from the studio in a birch crate, annealed, signed, and photographed against the same white wall you are looking at now. Collection in person is warmly preferred — the harbour is worth the trip.
Five acts, one breath
How a piece is made-
Gather
A gather of clear crystal from the furnace at 1,120 °C. We melt one batch a week; the tank sets the schedule, not the calendar.
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Blow
Breath shapes the bubble against wet newspaper and cherry-wood blocks. The first ten seconds decide the wall — everything after is negotiation.
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Case
Rods of Kugler colour are sealed between layers of clear. The colour sits inside the wall, never on it — which is why it moves when you do.
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Anneal
Fourteen hours in the lehr, cooling a few degrees at a time. Patience, set against stress. Skip this and the piece remembers.
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Cold work
Grinding the punty scar, polishing the lip. The object meets room temperature for the first time, and keeps whatever the fire gave it.
The studio
Refshaleøen, KøbenhavnVisit
VERRE Glasstudie
Refshalevej 167B
1432 København K, Denmark
Open Thursday to Sunday, 11–17. The furnace runs on Tuesdays — visitors are welcome at the rail, where the heat reaches you before the sound does.
Who blows here
Astrid Holm and Élodie Marchand met at a glass school in Småland and moved into a former welding hall on the harbour in 2019. Astrid gathers, Élodie shapes; on the large pieces they trade every second reheat.
Enquiries and commissions: studio@verre.dk