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DIY Network’s “Man Caves” Features Bendheim Glass in Show’s First Bathroom Remodel

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Architect-Designed, Maintenance Friendly Glass Helps Create Ultimate Bath-Spa Man Cave

The DIY Network’s “Man Caves” features Trattini™ glass from Bendheim’s Architect Series I collection in the show’s first bathroom makeover.
In this episode, the hosts – licensed contractor Jason Cameron and former NFL star Tony “The Goose” Siragusa – turn an outdated bathroom into a man cave worthy of a king. The remodel incorporates state-of-the-art design and entertainment features enhanced by luxurious edge-lit Bendheim glass enclosures. The episode is titled “King of the Throne.”
The show’s design team worked closely with Bendheim VP Steven Jayson to selected Trattini, one of four patterned etched glasses conceived by world renowned Robert A.M. Stern Designs.  The surface of Trattini’s ultra-clear low-iron glass is acid etched in Italy to produce a syncopated grid of vertical lines punctuated by subtle horizontal bands. The pattern, etched on both sides of the glass, lends a strong sense of dimensionality and movement, intensifying the dynamic LED lighting. Colorful ribbons of ceiling lights illuminate the ½” thick glass panels and generate a surreal play of colors, dispersing through the intricate yet orderly patterns of Trattini.
“This acid-etched glass has a cool pattern but it also gives light a direction to flow,” says Cameron.
In addition to its understated elegance, Trattini is permanently etched and naturally resistant to fingerprints and stains. Exceptionally maintenance friendly, it encourages use in such demanding applications as the “Man Caves” shower enclosure. Bendheim supplied the glass in a safety-tempered form for the shower, as well as safety-laminated to a grey etched privacy glass for the toilet area.
The masculine bathroom makeover includes other up-to-the-minute design elements, including a shower with seven water heads, a multi-feature toilet equipped with a heated seat, two flat-screen TVs, heated tile floors, an electric hand dryer, and even a concealed tap for chilled beer! A custom-made bookshelf serves as the secret entrance to this “royal chamber.”
Remodelers and homeowners can order Bendheim’s Architect Series I collection for custom installations, including shower enclosures, partition walls and decorative features through designers, contractors and professional installers.
Basic door, cabinet, and partition glass inserts can be ordered directly online at the Bendheim Cabinet Glass website.
About Bendheim
Bendheim, the resource for specialty glass since 1927, offers more than 2,000 decorative glass types in stock and unlimited custom design solutions. The third-generation, family-owned company develops, imports, and distributes its products worldwide. Bendheim maintains production facilities in New Jersey and an extensive showroom in Tribeca, New York City. Bendheim is the exclusive importer of Lamberts mouth-blown and channel glasses in North America.
 
About the Robert A.M. Stern Collection
Robert A. M. Stern Architects currently collaborates with several select manufacturers to create products including, in addition to architectural glass for Bendheim, carpet for Bentley Prince Street, furniture for David Edward, garden ornaments for Haddonstone, site furnishings for Landscape Forms, lighting for Lightolier, doors for Lualdi Porte, and hardware for S. A. Baxter.

Luxury Residential Building Garners Admiration with Reflective Façade, Blue Bendheim Etched Glass Interiors

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Futuristic Development Complements New York City’s Chic West Village Neighborhood

A newly designed luxury building now adorns New York City’s West Village, steps away from the Hudson River. Located between the historic blocks of Charles Lane and Perry Street, 166 Perry Street is a modern residential development whose elegant blue-and-white Bendheim Architectural Glass interiors create a serene, sophisticated atmosphere.
Designed by the avant-garde New York City based Asymptote Architecture, the eight-story building features a sculpturally angled façade reflecting the colors, details and activities of the neighborhood around it – from the mid-twentieth-century brick buildings to passersby and the deep blue sky. This reflective quality affords residents of 166 Perry Street a unique sense of privacy and blends the ultra-modern structure into the neighborhood, subtly camouflaging it with images of its surroundings.
Asymptote Architecture emphasized this light and reflectivity throughout every aspect of the interior. Each residence at 166 Perry Street – 22 lofts and two penthouses – occupies its own corner of the building, allowing an abundance of daylight. The impeccably detailed interiors are defined by the use of blue and white Bendheim glasses in combination with custom formed white features, stone and hardwood floors.
Bendheim, a specialty glass supplier, provided more than 5,000 square feet of six glass types, all tempered or laminated, water jet-cut and precision-fabricated in Bendheim’s New Jersey facility.
At the entrance, two monolithic doors of transparent blue Bendheim glass lead into the lobby, where soft-edged, glowing walls incorporate Bendheim’s white back-painted glass and white custom features, creating a smooth transition from the outside and offering a preview of the luxurious interiors upstairs.
Inside the residences, white, ultra-clear and deep-blue Bendheim SatinTech® etched glass doors and partitions open to spacious living spaces. The sumptuous bathrooms are adorned with etched panes of translucent blue glass in shower enclosures and sliding doors. Bendheim’s white laminated gradient glass, flowing smoothly from white to clear, defines interior stair railings.
The satin-smooth etched glass surfaces are maintenance-friendly, luminous, and obscuring, making them ideal for interior spaces that simultaneously create openness and privacy. Diverse light conditions morph the blue glass’ hue, adding vibrancy to the interiors.
Bendheim worked with Klein USA, the manufacturer of sliding door systems, and AAA Metal & Glass Inc., the installer, to supply the “heavy” (3/8” to 1/2” thick) glasses for the recessed sliding systems that create an illusion of weightlessness.
Asymptote’s first building in New York City adjoins the first of three Richard Meier Modernist residential towers. According to Asymptote, 166 Perry Street is simultaneously an antidotal design and a formal and tectonic play off Meier’s buildings. Richard Born, who developed the first two Meier buildings nearly a decade ago, worked together with Ira Drukier and Charles Blaichman to bring this distinctive addition to the neighborhood.

Bendheim Cabinet Glass Featured in DIY Network’s “BATHtastic!” Show

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Etched Glass Featuring Italian Double-Sided Satin Fibers Adds Subtle Luxury to Bathroom Makeover

The DIY Network’s popular show “BATHtastic!” selected Bendheim Cabinet Glass for a major part in the transformation of a home’s outdated bathroom. The episode is titled “Cheap to Chic.”
“BATHtastic!” selects the latest new materials, offers expert design tips and brings do-it-yourself know-how to revitalize any type of bathroom, great or small. In this episode, the show’s host Matt Muenster installs Bendheim Italian etched cabinet glass inserts, featuring a dimensional, double-sided satin fibers pattern, into the bathroom vanity cabinets. The glass brings subtle luxury, visually expands the space, and provides privacy.
Both surfaces of the ultra-brilliant (low-iron), tempered safety glass are acid-etched to produce a satin-like, ultra-smooth surface highly resistant to dirt and stains. Unlike sandblasted and coated glass, the surface of the acid-etched glass is permanent, extremely consistent and maintenance friendly.
Bendheim’s Cabinet Glass enhances the sleek vanity and complements a new crystal-encrusted ceramic backsplash, a pair of sinks with ultra-modern minimalist faucets, and updated lighting. Matching overhead cabinets and custom, built-in Bendheim glass shelves maximize storage. A high-contrast color scheme ties the design together and brings visual impact to the overall remodel at a total cost of $15,000.

Bendheim’s Authentic Mouth-Blown Glass Offers a Variety of Decorative Options for Historic Homes

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Historic and reproduction homes, buildings, and furniture provide an ideal setting for antique window glass. From windows and door inserts to sidelites and china display cabinets, traditional mouth-blown glasses can add elegance, charm and historic character to any space. When breakage, damage, or a desired makeover call for the replacement or addition of antique window glass, businesses and individuals can turn to Bendheim for a wide variety of decorative mouth-blown glasses, now available at www.bendheimcabinetglass.com.

Bendheim’s Cabinet Glass Collection offers a selection of exclusive mouth-blown sheet glasses crafted by the skilled glass masters at Germany’s Glashütte Lamberts. Hand-made utilizing centuries-old production techniques, these mouth-blown glasses exhibit a superior brilliance, variety and structure. Characteristic features include the mild waviness and occasional air bubble inherent to original antique window glass. Customers can select from many decorative options including clear, colored, seedy, crackle (alligator skin appearance), and opal (a slightly obscuring glass).
Bendheim offers all mouth-blown glass varieties in a laminated safety option in compliance with modern building codes. Laminated glass offers the aesthetic benefits of true antique window glass in combination with additional safety for use in glass doors, windows, and sidelites.

Bendheim Restoration Glass® (“New Antique” Window Glass) Featured in AIA Honor Award-Winning Project

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The Beauvoir restoration project featuring authentic mouth-blown Restoration Glass®  (“new antique” window glass) receives a 2010 AIA National Honor Award.

Albert & Associates Architects specified Light Restoration Glass®, supplied exclusively by Bendheim, as the glass of choice for Beauvoir, the Presidential Library in Biloxi, Mississippi. The high-profile restoration project was recently recognized with a 2010 AIA National Honor Award.

 

Bendheim provided 209 panes of mouth-blown Restoration Glass® to restore Beauvoir’s antique glass windows and the front and back glass doors. The glass is identical to authentic mouth-blown antique window glass made before the advent of modern window glassmaking. The slight distortions, occasional bubbles, pits and imperfections characteristic to this specialty glass make it ideal for historically correct restorations of commercial buildings, residential work, and furniture. Restoration Glass® can be found in such high-profile projects as The White House in Washington, D.C., Monticello – Thomas Jefferson’s Home in Charlottesville, VA, and George Washington’s Home in Mount Vernon, VA.

 

Light Restoration Glass® is less distorting and similar to the glass from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Bendheim also offers Full Restoration Glass® that is more distorting and accurately represents much of the glass made in the 17th and 18th centuries. Both varieties are manufactured exclusively by Germany’s Glashütte Lamberts for Bendheim in North America, and can be laminated for additional safety.

 

Beauvoir, the presidential library and last home of Jefferson Davis, was built in 1852. Five of its seven buildings were destroyed and the remaining two were severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Beauvoir lost its front and side porches and two sections of the roof.  According to the published AIA jury comments: “A wonderful, archetypal house with significant history has been brought back from the dead… This project transcends the typical restoration project – restoring Beauvoir was truly a labor of love and it shows in every detail of the home.” And, “As a victim of Hurricane Katrina, this project is significant culturally, historically and architecturally.”  (Source: https://www.aia.org/practicing/awards/AIAB082053)

Bendheim Expands Cabinet Glass Collection Online

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With the addition of thirty new glasses, Bendheim continues to build its online catalog of residential glasses, available at www.bendheimcabinetglass.com.

The expanded online selection introduces opaque glasses – Titanium® mirrored and colored varieties – for the ultra-modern kitchen, as well as ultra-clear etched pattern glasses and decorative rice paper laminated glasses to complement traditional and contemporary kitchen styles.
“We have seen remarkable interest and genuine excitement for our Cabinet Glass Collection. As we continue to develop new relationships with homeowners, do-it-yourself enthusiasts, designers, and contractors, we are expanding the online catalog to offer greater, more diversified design options,” said Robert Jayson, President of Bendheim.
With the availability of the new glasses online, homeowners gain first-time access to previously exclusive decorative glass varieties, such as Japanese rice paper laminates. These translucent panels are true safety laminated glasses encapsulating fine Japanese rice papers between glass. A new Opaque category, including contemporary etched back-painted and mirrored glasses, provides homeowners with aesthetic solutions to unsightly kitchen cabinet clutter. Customers interested in the retro look will find a selection of opaque pastel colored glasses produced through old-world hot-glass hand-rolling techniques.
Bendheim’s Cabinet Glass online catalog now contains more than 150 mouth-blown, hand-crafted, and machine-rolled decorative glasses in different patterns, textures and colors, carefully selected from the company’s 2,000+ glass varieties. The glass is available in tempered or laminated form for additional safety.
Bendheim’s Cabinet Glasses are produced by environmentally responsible European and North American manufacturers utilizing maximum recycled material and low-emissions processes. Bendheim’s processing facilities include a highly energy-efficient tempering furnace and an environmentally sound lamination line.