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Carrer del Peu de la Creu, 21 Bis – 08001 Barcelona
ACTIVITY
Jorge Alberto is a master glazier with more than 47 years’ experience, specialised in lead-came stained glass.
His work respects the traditional principles of came glasswork, dating from medieval times and largely unchanged in technique since then.
He does both new work and restoration. He asserts that… what accounts for the craft’s lasting significance and continuity is its durability and integrity.
In his work he uses tools that have evolved from the original ones of the trade. For cutting, diamonds have been superseded by tungsten carbide blades, and for melting tin, electric soldering irons are used now. Furnaces for enamelling with sulphides, oxides and selenite have also evolved. But Jorge maintains that the poetry that is part of the process retains its essence.
Although he has been plying his trade for over 30 years in Barcelona, he also worked for years in Argentina.
TRAINING
Jorge Alberto Aragone learned the trade from Juan Mota, an Argentinean master glazier. He started out as an apprentice in Mota’s workshop in the city of Rosario (Argentina), which he later took over himself. He has also learned from other masters such as Jorge Curutchet… (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Anzolo Fuga (Murano, Venice).
TEACHING
He has had several apprentices who have later opened their own workshops, both in Argentina and in Spain.
SELECTED WORK
Restoration of stained glass in Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Batlló (Barcelona)
Restoration of stained glass in Lluís Domènech i Montaner’s Sant Pau Hospital (Barcelona)
Restoration of stained glass in the same architect’s Casa Lleó i Morera (Barcelona)
Restoration of stained glass in Josep Puig i Cadafalch’s Palau Baró de… Quadras (Barcelona)
Restoration of stained glass in Casa Orlandai (Barcelona)
Restoration of stained glass in Casa Martí i Fabregue (Barcelona), a stately 18th-century house refurbished in 1864 by Miquel Garriga i Roca
Restoration of stained glass in José Doménech Estapá and Lluís Doménech i Montaner’s Palau Ramon Montaner (Barcelona)
Restoration of stained glass in the Orange Tree Courtyard of Palau de la Generalitat (seat of the Catalan government in Barcelona)
Restoration of stained glass in Joan Garrido y Bertrán’s Casa de la Seda (Barcelona)
Restoration of stained glass in the 15th-century Palau Solterra de Torroella de Montgri, currently managed by the Vila Casas Foundation
Restoration of stained glass in the Chapel of Sa Torre by Bartomeu Ferra (Mallorca)
Restoration of stained glass in the Church of Santa Margarita (Mallorca)
Restoration of stained glass in the Convent of Les Darderes (Barcelona)
Restoration of stained glass in the skylight of the former Banco Bilbao in Plaza Catalunya (Barcelona)
Stained glass in the facade of Bar El Born (Barcelona)
Skylight in the Bopan pastry shop and bar (Barcelona)
Skylight in the Rilke restaurant (Barcelona)
