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Sandra McDonald Joins Bendheim as Sales Account Manager

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Bendheim Architectural Glass announces that Sandra McDonald has been named Sales Account Manager. Ms. McDonald will be responsible for sales of Bendheim’s specialty glass products and customer service relations with New York City architects and designers.

Ms. McDonald comes to Bendheim from Custom Shade and Glass Company in New York City, where she was responsible for overseeing retail and trade sales of high-end glass products. Previously, she held a position at Marilyn Rose Interiors, Ltd. in Locust Valley, N.Y. Ms. McDonald studied business at Aberdeen College in Scotland, and received her diploma in interior design from the Metropolitan Institute of Interior Design in Plainview, N.Y.

Bendheim Names Jen Miret Director of Marketing

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Bendheim, North America’s leading importer and fabricator of specialty architectural glass, has appointed Jen Miret as director of marketing & communications.

Jen will be responsible for heading the company’s internal and external communications, including advertising, public relations, trade show exhibitions, newsletter production and other marketing communications activities. She will also be overseeing the development of Bendheim’s continuing education (CEU) programs for architects, designers and building professionals.

Jen comes to Bendheim from MIS Technologies, the Fair Lawn-based provider of dental implants, where she had been the company’s marketing manager. Prior to that, she had been marketing manager for Dantec Dynamics, the Ramsey, New Jersey developer of integrated measurement systems for diagnostics and research.

Jen earned a Bachelor of Arts from Ramapo College of New Jersey, with a double major in international business and contemporary arts.

Bendheim Architectural Glass Showroom Featured in Interior Design Magazine

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This editorial content was originally published in Interior Design, September 2002 edition.

Art of Glass
by Shonquis Moreno
A TriBeCa interior by Boschen Design, Architecture, emphasizes the aesthetic range and multiple applications of Bendheim’s product.
In 1927, Margaret and Sem Bendheim established a business importing mouth-blown glass from Europe. In 1958, their son-in-law, who had taken over, moved from the original space, in the West Village, to a building farther downtown. During the 1980s, Bendheim developed a line of handblown glass specifically intended for such restoration projects as the White House and Monticello. Now the company has upgraded its New York presence at a TriBeCa loft. With three times the capacity of the previous showroom, downstairs in the same building Bendheim has occupied for 44 years, the 1,000-square-foot space displays thousands of types of glass. Product comes in sheets as big as doors or as small as 8 by 16 inches.
Credit for these improvements goes to Richard Boschen of Boschen Design, Architecture. Boschen saw the job as a chance to demonstrate the aesthetic and functional range of Bendheim’s architectural glass, giving designers and developers a playful hands-on experience. A stupendous 8,000 pounds of glass are presented on three sets of 15 sliding steel racks, all hanging from boomerang-shape tracks. (The tracks are suspended via open web joists a few feet from the ceiling, so its handsome pressed tin remains visible.) Racks are positioned to be viewed both from the center of the showroom, looking toward its south-facing windows, or from the showroom’s perimeter, looking toward the center, for “inside” and “outside” perspectives. Each rack contains from one to 24 modular samples Velcro’d into metal frames, allowing clients to remove pieces and experiment with them in various contexts: in the backsplash of a cabinet, wall-mounted, or inserted into a tray that projects different types of fiber-optic light: halogen, fluorescent, incandescent. “Glass is a very tactile product,” says senior vice president Donald Jayson as he pulls a whorled sample from its frame.
The showroom has also become a forum where clients and Bendheim can brainstorm together. “We do our own research and development. Designers use us as a think tank,” says Jayson, who now runs the third-generation business with brothers Steven and Robert. A steel accordion wall efficiently divides the space into two meeting areas, with the same 1,000-plus samples available to each. Of the three sets of sliding racks, the end sets hold identical merchandise, while the middle set is shared.
Another kind of wall, this one composed of Bendheim’s innovative Linit U-Profile plank system demonstrates how glass can today reach heights previously unattainable in North America. A wall comprising a grid of glass sheets – etched, mirrored, or layered with rice paper, ginkgo leaves, plastic, or bulletproof material – glows in a Jolly Rancher rainbow. “It’s like a candy store,” says Boschen. “For architects.”