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Glass Artist Nancy Nicholson Recreates City Life Using Light, Color & Lamberts® Art Glass

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Nancy’s “East Village Sunset” art glass panel becomes part of the “The Art of Craftsmanship Revisited: New York” collaborative initiative of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Parsons School

 
“There is something so special about the way the light hits the glass; the way the color is revealed,” says Nancy Nicholson, a stained glass artist with 25 years of experience and a long-time Bendheim Art Glass customer. “When the light changes, the colors are shifting constantly; different textures distort what you see through the glass…It feels very much alive.”
Nancy is one of a select few New York City artisans to take part in the initiative “The Art of Craftsmanship Revisited: New York,” a collaborative project of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Parsons – The New School for Design. The initiative brings Parsons’ students together with New York City artisans to celebrate the tradition of authenticity, creativity and craftsmanship. Working closely with the artists, students create original fashion ensembles and short documentary films inspired by their work.
The “Light Shift” documentary captures Nancy Nicholson’s creative process from design and glass selection to the completion of an elegant art glass piece. As Nancy examines the shelves filled with Lamberts Art Glass in Bendheim’s Passaic, New Jersey warehouse, she looks for the desired textures and colors to create a one-of-a-kind canvas for her design.
A pale-yellow glass sheet with graceful streaks of green and red catches Nancy’s eye, and she holds it up to the window. As she checks the glass against the light, the colors come alive, bouncing, shifting and merging playfully in a series of dramatic transformations.
Hand-crafted utilizing the centuries-old mouth-blown method, each sheet of Lamberts Art Glass is unique. It exhibits extraordinary brilliance and structure, optimal light refraction, and a rich color palette. Colors are produced following medieval formulas, carefully mixing measured amounts of metal oxides into the glass batch. Bendheim, the exclusive supplier of Lamberts Art Glass in North America, offers a rich palette of more than 500 in-stock colors, with more than 5,000 colors accessible through the Lamberts factory in Germany.
Nancy transforms the colorful Lamberts glass pieces into an East Village cityscape, exploring the layering of light and color to recreate the urban environment’s dynamic forms.
“Glass is a metaphor for how I see the world,” she says. “Glass, like life, is elusive and constantly changing.”

About Antique Window Glass

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Bendheim’s Restoration Glass® Website Tells the Story of Antique Window Glass Production

Homeowners of historic houses, design professionals, and restoration enthusiasts can now learn about the history of antique window glass on Bendheim’s Restoration Glass® website.
The story takes readers on a journey beginning in the 7th century when mouth-blown “crown” glass was originally developed and later revived in the 11th century. The 11th century also sees the invention of the mouthblown “cylinder” glass technique of making window glass, first developed in Germany. The history of authentic antique window glassmaking ends after the Industrial Revolution when the first mechanical method for “drawing” window glass is invented in the United States.
The article discusses cylinder and crown glass – two authentic, mouthblown antique window glass types typically found in historical structures in the United States. Their unique manufacturing methods are revealed, featuring vintage and contemporary photos of the mouth-blown production process.
Visitors will also find information about the benefits of Bendheim’s Restoration Glass® (new antique window glass) blending the historical accuracy of authentic antique window glass with modern technology and standards. Found in our country’s most prestigious restorations, including the White House, Mount Vernon, and Monticello, it features slight distortions and imperfections characteristic of window glasses from the 17th through early 20th centuries. Concurrently, it offers consistency of color, brilliance and body, is easier to handle than salvaged authentic antique window glass, and can be provided in safety laminated form meeting the most current safety building codes.

“The Construction Specifier” Front Cover Features Bendheim Wall Systems’ Channel Glass

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The Construction Specifier Magazine’s May 2010 issue contains a feature story on how to specify channel glass, written by Jim Donoghue, Technical Services Manager of Bendheim Wall Systems Inc.

The detailed ten-page article discusses design and specification standards required for the proper application of channel glass. Featured on the front cover of the magazine is Bendheim’s award-winning Pratt Institute – Higgins Hall, designed by Steven Holl and Rogers Marvel Architects. Included in the article are numerous additional channel glass projects of architectural and cultural importance, as well as informative product photos.

Segerstrom Science Center, Azusa Pacific University: Faith, Science, and Lamberts® Channel Glass

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Lamberts channel glass provided by Bendheim Wall Systems completes the dramatic façade of the new Segerstrom Science Center at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California, located by historic Route 66 north of Los Angeles.

For the $42 million building at California’s first Bible college, A.C. Martin Partners, Inc. took advantage of the unique structural properties of Lamberts channel glass. The single- and double-glazed walls of obscuring channel glass combine privacy with excellent light-scattering properties and fill the Science Center’s new laboratories and study areas with gentle daylight. In an unusual enhancement, the entrance walls of the building display Biblical quotations sandblasted onto the glass surface.
Lamberts channel glass features up to 40% post-consumer material contributing to the overall sustainability of the project and its target of LEED Gold certification. From the safety standpoint, Lamberts channel glass is the only tempered, heat soak tested channel glass to be SGCC (Safety Glazing Certification Council) certified. Installation of the channel glass was handled by Corona Aluminum.
Bendheim Wall Systems is the exclusive North American importer of Lamberts channel glass, translucent, U-shaped glass planks assembled to create sweeping walls of glass without the need for intermediate framing members. An ideal daylighting material, Lamberts channel glass is produced in lengths up to 23 feet. Recent award-winning projects include the Bloch Building/Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art by Steven Holl Architects, Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects and Planners, and Serta International Center by Epstein | Metter Studio.

Bendheim Wall Systems’ Channel Glass Project Wins 2010 AIA Institute Honor Award

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Bendheim Wall Systems’ Lamberts channel glass is a key design element in the Serta International Center, Bendheim’s third project in three years to earn a national AIA Institute Honor Award for Excellence in Architecture. The AIA Institute Honor Award is the profession’s highest recognition of works exemplifying excellence in architecture, interior architecture, and urban design.

Located in Hoffman Estates, IL, Serta International Mattress Company’s world corporate headquarters combines a 65,000 square-foot office wing and a 25,000 square-foot industrial research and development facility. The building is designed to provide equal access to natural light, ventilation, and views of the wetlands for all Serta employees.
Working closely with Epstein | Metter Studio, Bendheim Wall Systems provided its SGCC certified, 504 Rough Cast tempered, sandblasted channel glass and their proprietary frame system. The glass allows Serta’s research and development department to operate largely without artificial lighting while concealing machinery and materials from public view. The glass channels are one of the few vertically oriented design elements on this horizontal two-story building.
“Serta International Center joins such AIA Institute Honor Award winners as the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s Bloch Building and the Shaw Center for the Arts, all featuring Lamberts channel glass,” said Michael Tryon, General Manager of Bendheim Wall System, Inc. “This recognition holds special significance for Bendheim as it acknowledges the contribution of our channel glass wall systems to outstanding architectural design.”
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Bloch Building in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, won the AIA Institute Honor Awards in 2008. The five lenses of the Bloch Building are formed with Lamberts custom glass channels in a double-glazed curtain wall application, while the Shaw Center for the Arts features a single-glazed rain screen with its channel glass flanges turned outward.
Bendheim Wall Systems’ translucent, U-shaped Lamberts channel glass creates sweeping walls of glass, including curves and corners, without the need for intermediate framing members. Reaching heights of 23 feet, it is an ideal daylighting material and contains as much as 60 percent recycled glass, including up to 40 percent post-consumer.

Bendheim Channel Glass in Montclair State University Student Recreation Center

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Illuminated With Energy-Efficient LED Lights, Channel Glass Wall Creates User-Programmable Light Show.

Bendheim Wall Systems’ Lamberts channel glass is a prominent design element in the new Montclair State University Student Recreation Center. Energy-efficient, programmable LED lights illuminate the curved interior channel glass wall and breathe energy into the state-of-the-art facility. It is a powerful visual draw welcoming visitors from among the 16,000 students attending the university.

 

The 78,000 square foot Center is dedicated to students’ health and fitness activities and provides a variety of programs and facilities including a natatorium and gymnasium. The entrance lobby has clear views of the exercise and nutrition areas. Central to this area are the 20-foot tall parallel, single-glazed channel glass walls which provide a sweeping backdrop to the curved center staircase. The computer-controlled LED system can display an infinite array of light shows, giving the entire space a sense of excitement and movement. The curtain of glass literally glows from within.
Working with RDG Planning & Design of Des Moines, IA, Bendheim Wall Systems, Inc. provided its tempered, 504 Rough Cast textured channel glass, certified by the Safety Glazing Certification Council, as well as the proprietary frame system.
“Lamberts channel glass is best known for its large-scale exterior projects featuring expansive walls of glass,” said Robert Jayson, President of Bendheim. “Montclair State University Student Recreation Center is a powerful example of how channel glass can be an essential design element when successfully incorporated into a building’s interior space.”
Bendheim Wall Systems’ Lamberts channel glass is translucent, U-shaped glass used to create sweeping walls of glass, including curves and corners, without the need for intermediate framing members. Reaching heights up to 23 feet, it is an ideal daylighting material and contains as much as 60 percent recycled glass, including up to 40 percent post-consumer. Many award-winning projects feature striking Bendheim supplied Lamberts channel glass walls and elements; among them, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art by Steven Holl and The Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure by Moore Ruble Yudell.