Serge Mimeault and Nathalie LeClair

WHAT GOT YOU STARTED?

by Burke Campbell 

Published in the Financial Post

 Dec 22, 2008

Nathalie LeClair and Serge Mimeault run Studio des Verriers du Richelieu (www.studiodesverriers.com). Located in Richelieu , Quebec , the firm specializes in customized glassworks. Nathalie LeClair tells the Financial Post what motivated her to become an entrepreneur.

Romance, and after: “I was a painter when I met Serge. We dated, and travelled together. He worked with glass, understanding very well its properties. I began to paint on glass, to explore it as a canvas. I fell in love with Serge, and then, with the creative possibilities of glass.”

Skill and imagination: “We create custom orders in ‘slumping glass’, flat glass that is heated until it’s soft as gel, permitting it to fill or to be shaped around our molds. We work with architects, designers, and engineers to make furnishings, partitions, floors, light fixtures, doors—anything you can imagine—all from glass.”

Wonderful growth: “We’ve completed and delivered on ground-breaking projects from a towering glass climbing wall to a 20 feet high hourglass, that even tells the right time!”

Prestigious: “Recently, we became a member of Économusée, a network of artisans in Quebec and Atlantic Canada, where each business member practices a traditional trade or craft.”

Joy: “People bring us ideas, and we work to expand or refine them. Each project is different. Each idea can bring forth from glass a unique and astonishing creation.”

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