Although post-war French crystal manufacturers dominated the national glassmaking scene, a few glass artists distinguished themselves by producing beautiful pieces.
Having already faced the crisis of 1929, glass artists and artisans struggled to overcome the war years. Following the Liberation, few resumed their activities in a context now more favorable to new trends in international design and manufactured goods, particularly those produced by French crystal manufacturers. Nevertheless, a few French glassmakers, such as François Décorchemont, Jean Sala, and André Thuret, remained active. Two of them, Décorchemont and Thuret, even participated in the major glass exhibition organized in Paris in 1951 by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
Although primarily dedicated to creating stained-glass windows for churches in the Eure region that had suffered war damage, François Décorchemont also produced a few new designs of pâte de verre objects, most often characterized by their solid shapes and massive walls. In Paris, Jean Sala continued to produce vases of bubble-filled glass, as he had done before the war. André Thuret, for his part, developed new designs of vases and bottles in solid, colorless crystal, molded while hot and decorated with metallic glitter, allowing him to achieve beautiful color tones. Robert-Henri Schneider, who began his career after the war at the family crystal factory, where he created designs, also produced crystal bowls and vases decorated with metallic glitter in various colors.