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 hese are 80-year-old French stained-glass windows, in the shape of big murals and cupolas on the coffee house entrance doors. It is one of the most beautiful "leaded-and painted-glass" stained-glass windows collection. They symbolize a period in which art and luxurious items were used in public places for the repose of the incipient "big metropolis" dwellers.
They were made with the traditional stained-glass technique - cut glass panes joined with welded and puttied lead profiles of different sizes. Reinforcement bars were placed where required.
There are three big vertical stained-glass windows, three cupolas on the entrance doors and several small stained glass panes in different places. The whole collection has a surface area of approximately 80 sq. meters. |
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We could not identify the author of the main stained-glass windows.
The three small stained-glass windows overlooking the kitchen and the restroom are more recent (1950's approxiamately) and were done in Buenos Aires by E. Fino.
There are a total of twelve stained-glass windows, which fall into three categories:
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Antique figurative stained-glass windows |
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Cupolas in the entrances and stained-glass window two. |
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Recent figurative stained-glass windows |
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Antique figurative stained-glass windows
Since the building was made twice -the first in the 1880's and the second in the 1920's--, Helen Weis editor of Stained Glass Quarterly (USA) explained that those stained-glass windows had been made at the turn of the XXth century, and that were generally not signed. She added that they were basically paintings with grisailles, enamel, and silver painting on cathedral glass, probably done by Swiss, French, or German artists. She mentioned some of the art schools.
Analyzing the themes in detail, we can prove that. |
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