Ruinart Studio’s Drapé de Verre, its most ambitious upcycled creation to date
As part of its Ruinart Studio program, the LVMH-owned champagne house gave free rein to glass artist Lucile Viaud and textile designer Aurélia Leblanc to imagine a second life for the brand’s bottles and caps. The result? A sumptuous ‘fabric’ blending glass and textile that hangs at Ruinart’s 4 rue des Crayères site in Reims.
Stretched over a length of six meters and just more than one meter in width, Lucile Viaud and Aurélia Leblanc’s oeuvre reads like a narrative fresco with its woven interlace of glass, wool, and metal threads. This drapé de verre, or glass drapery, that now adorns the salons of the Bar By Ruinartin Reims, depicts the iconic chalk pits of the Champagne estate, where the cuvées still age. But also the lesser-known origins of the brand: Ruinart was a house of drapers before turning to champagne.
Source: Formes De Luxe
