DOYEN SOLD
![]() ![]() ![]() According to Michele Thiry (in 'de L'art deco aux annees 50'), Doyen was one of the exhibitors alongside Val St Lambert at the Paris Expo of 1937. After WW2 the factory was restarted under the ownership of her son, Paul Doyen. The 'great glass conglomeration' after 1968 saw the whole industry going into decline, first Doyen merged with Boussu and then became part of the group which progressively subsumed all the struggling factories into a single commercial entity called 'Manubelver' (Manufactures Belgique du Verre) which crashed in 1975. In 1987 the final chapter of the Doyen factory ended with the closure of the remaining administration. ![]() |