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Lamberts® Mouth-Blown Art Glass Brings Life & Color to Building Spaces

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Glass Blends Centuries-Old Craftsmanship with Modern Aesthetics and Performance

Bendheim, the supplier of Lamberts Art Glass in North America, offers this hand-made glass in a rich palette of colors to the architectural and design market. Laminated in compliance with modern safety building codes, Lamberts Art Glass brings color and light into building spaces ranging from airport terminals and hospitals to schools and homes.

 

Produced through the centuries-old mouth-blown method, each sheet of Lamberts Art Glass is unique in its appearance. The glass exhibits extraordinary brilliance, structure, and optimal light refraction, introducing vibrant and humanizing design elements into modern building facades and interiors. Lamberts Art Glass’ colors and textures can enhance doors and windows, partitions, balustrades, decorative canopies, wall cladding, lighting, and signage.

 

Architects and designers can select from Bendheim’s more than 500 colors, with over 5,000 additional colors and textures available through the Lamberts factory in Germany. The breadth of the line, in combination with Bendheim’s in-house lamination and water jet capabilities, can accommodate most aesthetic and technical project requirements.

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 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.

Bendheim Introduces EcoGlass™ Environmentally-Friendly Recycled Architectural Glass

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Bendheim announces EcoGlass™, a new line of textured architectural glass containing 25% to 40% post-consumer recycled material and produced in a highly enviro-sensitive factory. EcoGlass™ is well-suited for a range of commercial and residential applications, including curtainwalls, partitions, sliding doors, shower enclosures, and lighting.

“We recognized the demand for enviro-friendly architectural glass with clearly identifiable green attributes, and collaborated with our long-time partner Lamberts to bring EcoGlass™ to market,” said Donald Jayson, Senior Vice President of Bendheim. “From manufacture to application, our EcoGlasses are exceptionally green and will contribute to a project’s aesthetics and sustainability.”
Manufactured by Glasfabrik Lamberts in Europe’s only clean-burning oxygen/fuel-fired cast glass furnace, EcoGlasses contain a minimum 20% pre-consumer (glass cullet) and 25% to 40% post-consumer recycled glass.  For safety and security applications, Bendheim tempers EcoGlass™ in a highly energy-efficient oven and laminates utilizing environmentally-sensitive processes and materials.
EcoGlass™ has excellent daylighting qualities and is available in 10 textures, offering varying degrees of privacy. The glass can be supplied in combination with custom color interlayers or color coatings for decorative feature walls and backsplashes. Bendheim’s proprietary color-coating process employs isocyanate-free pigments and produces a VOC-free, maintenance-friendly product.
EcoGlass™ can contribute points to LEED® v.3: EA Credit 1 “Optimize Energy Performance,” MR Credit 4 “Recycled Content,” and IEQ Credits 8.1 and 8.2 “Daylight & Views.”
 
The glass is offered in 5/32” (4 mm), ¼” (6 mm) and 3/8” (10 mm) thicknesses and is available in sheet sizes up to 70” by 126” .

Bendheim Architectural Glass at Award-Winning Solar Decathlon Project

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Team California’s Solar-Powered House Awarded Third Place in Prestigious Competition Hosted by U.S. Department of Energy

This year, Bendheim was part of the exciting international competition that challenged 20 teams of college students to build the most technologically savvy solar-powered house at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C.

 

Bendheim supported the efforts of Team California, a team of 100 undergraduates from Santa Clara University and California College of Arts, through the donation of Color Coated glass for the team’s Refract House. The team was awarded third place in the competition which took place on October 8-16, 2009.

 

Team California completed Refract House after two years of hard work, then dismantled and transported it across the country to reassemble the structure upon arrival at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Team members moved into their house for the duration of the competition, proving it could produce enough electricity and hot water from solar panels to run a modern home with all essential conveniences.
Team California’s goal to create a house as beautiful as it was energy-efficient brought them to Bendheim’s “White” and “Blue Stream” Color Coated low-iron glasses for kitchen and bathroom backsplashes. These 100 percent VOC-free, hygienic, maintenance-friendly products also provided the desired contemporary aesthetic.
The large Bendheim glass panels were manufactured using environmentally friendly water-based, fade-resistant color coatings.  Bendheim’s precision cutting, polishing, tempering, and back-painting processes met the fast-track requirements of the project.

 

This year’s Solar Decathlon competition was the fourth since the event premiered in 2002 with subsequent competitions in 2005 and 2007. On average, each Solar Decathlon has drawn more than 100,000 visitors to the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

 

To learn more about Team California’s Refract House, visit www.refracthouse.com. To learn more about the Solar Decathlon, visit www.solardecathlon.org.

Bendheim’s Optichroic® Glass Distinguishes Donor Recognition Signage

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A specialty glass by Bendheim, North America’s leading importer and manufacturer of decorative architectural glass, was used to highlight the informational and donor recognition signage in the newly constructed University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
 
Optichroic® glass, invented and perfected by Bendheim, was selected because of its distinct ability to capture and radiate the full color spectrum of light. The luminescent qualities of Optichroic®, combined with the carefully conceived and executed design, create a dynamic radiant element setting the donor wall apart. Created through specialized interlayer technologies, the glass is available in a wide range of texture and color combinations, including clear and etched patterns, and is suitable for large-scale architectural applications. It is an environmentally sound, low maintenance, safety glass.
“The striking appearance of the Optichroic® glass panels in this truly distinctive signage installation naturally focuses the attention on the names of the people whose generosity made this ambitious project possible,” said Steven Jayson, Vice President of Bendheim.
Poulin + Morris Inc., signage design consultants, in coordination with the renowned architects of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC, intended the sign tablets to reflect the infusion of natural light passing through the building’s sky-lit spaces. Having worked with Bendheim on various other projects in the past, the designers selected the company’s Optichroic® glass to create more than 100 individual glass panels on a sixty-foot donor recognition wall as well as more than 200 classroom and teachers’ office identification signs. Design Communications Ltd., a leading fabricator of custom architectural specialties, used the Optichroic® glass panels as the primary material for­­ the signage.
“Bendheim’s unique products, customer service, and manufacturing reliability helped make this signage program a success of which we are all very proud,” said Douglas Morris, a Principal of Poulin + Morris Inc.