At only 14 years old, Jean-Claude Novaro joined the Biot glassworks, then run by Eloi Monod. Since setting up his glassworks in 1956, Monod had championed an artisanal approach to glassmaking in contrast to industrial production.

Jean-Claude Novaro rose through the ranks at the Biot glassworks, becoming a master glassmaker. In 1977, he set up his own business, moving from craftsmanship to a truly artistic dimension.

Jean-Claude Novaro's creativity was boundless, free from any reference to the past.
He innovated constantly, both in form and technique, throughout his life, pushing the physical and technical limits of glass to the extreme.

Jean-Claude Novaro was the first to include gold and metal leaf in glass and invented luminescent glass, like an alchemist, a magician of matter.