French artist Jean-Claude Navaro is known as the King of Glass because he has invented many new techniques over the past five decades, constantly pushing the boundaries of glass art in terms of colours, shapes, materials and the sizes of the pieces he creates. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00I discovered this job when I was 14 years old, and I liked it a lot, I had a passion for it, it's my life, it's my job.
00:30It's not the number of pieces that I make, it's the pieces that stay good, because when the pieces are blown and finished, they go to the oven, on 5, 6, there are always 1, 2 or 3 that break, because I cook them again for 2 days and you never know which ones are going to break, because of the colors that are in them.
00:571,200°C, I work between 1,100 and 1,800°C, when the piece is finished, it goes back to the oven at 560°C for 2 days, and then the temperature goes down slowly, and when the temperature is good after 2 days, we open the oven to take out the pieces, there are good ones, there are broken ones, it's normal, it's like that.
01:22I was 14 years old in my little village in Biote, and I was going to play, they were building a little brewery, very small, I was going to play, and when I saw the ovens heating up, I liked it a lot, I got hired, I was 14 years old.
01:38I grew up in the brewery in Biote, I learned my job down there, I didn't learn how to do that, I learned how to make glass, glass by foot, carafe, piché, I learned that, and I always tried, when I had the time, to do something else than what I was taught, and that lasted 20 years, one day I left the brewery in Biote, I made my first brewery, I made 5 breweries in all.
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