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Bendheim Introduces the Spirit Collection™ | Translucent White Safety Laminated Glass

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Bendheim is introducing the Spirit Collection™, a new line of safety laminated specialty glass, featuring an ethereal white translucent interlayer between combinations of patterned and clear architectural glasses.

The Spirit Collection’s refined contemporary style is well-suited for a variety of commercial, residential, and hospitality applications, including wall partitions, curtainwalls, windows, ceilings, balustrades, table tops, and lighting.
“There is a definite trend in the use of translucent white glass, a product providing excellent daylighting and exceptional aesthetics,” said Donald Jayson, Vice President of Bendheim. “Bendheim has taken this concept to a new level by creating a product available in a wide variety of textures, offering architects and designers an array of choices to suit their project needs.”
The glass can be custom created using an unlimited number of patterns, including low-iron options. The collection is currently offered in six textures (Ice Water, Winter Garden, Graphic, Venetian, Motion, and Pinstripe) and three opacity levels of polished white (Purity, Radiance, and Veil). The Spirit Collection™ is laminated for safety; some textures may also be tempered for special applications. The glass ranges from 1/4 to 3/4-inches in thickness and is available in large sheet sizes.

Introducing Optichroic™ Architectural Dichroic Glass

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Bendheim’s Optichroic™ dichroic glass is the first glass of its type suitable for architectural applications. Developed in the late fifties by NASA to protect against the potentially harmful effects of direct sunlight and cosmic radiation, dichroic glass, with its striking visual qualities, has been used in a variety of scientific and industrial applications. Its name is a derivation of the Greek word dikhroos, or two colors, which describes how light reflecting off the glass surface changes in color as the angle of vision changes.

Optichroic™ glass is created through specialized interlayer technologies.  As the viewer’s angle to the glass changes, so does its color, giving Optichroic™ its refined iridescent characteristics.

“Historically, dichroic glass has not been available in large sheet sizes, limiting the architectural community  to small-scale applications.,” said Steven Jayson, Bendheim’s Executive Vice President and one of three of the founder’s grandsons now managing the company. “Architects can now choose an authentic safety laminated dichroic glass from a wide variety of patterns. Our Optichroic™ glass offers an attractive aesthetic with the added durability of a scratch-resistant, easy to maintain glass. It has been rigorously tested by independent labs to ensure the Optichroic™ dichroic effect is long-lasting and stable.”

Optichroic™ glass is available in a virtually unlimited number of variations, including clear, fully and lightly etched, etched patterns, as well as organic and geometric textures. It can be produced in sheets as large as 52 by 120 inches.

Bendheim Precision-Cut & Edged Mirrored Glass Tiles Shine at Luxurious Christian Lacroix Clothing Boutique

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French Haute Couture designer Christian Lacroix selects specialty glass tiles by Bendheim for the design of his Las Vegas store.

Inspired by Christian Lacroix’s eclectic style, his store at Caesars in Las Vegas creates a chic modern aesthetic through the combination of contemporary elements and Lacroix’s characteristic rich French Baroque style. The design objective, to create a subway-scale, beveled glass tile wall, is successfully accomplished with Bendheim custom cut, silvered and mitered glass pieces. The end result…. a lustrous, fluid glass wall.
About Christian Lacroix
Christian Lacroix is a high-end French fashion designer and couture house with approximately 1,000 points-of-sale worldwide. The retail outlet discussed above is located in The Forum Shops at Caesars in Las Vegas, U.S., and was designed in collaboration with the Pavlik Design Team (Florida), the Kreo Gallery, and Christian Lacroix himself.
 
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 glass in North America.

Bendheim Black Glass Cladding Panels Define Elegant NYC Hotel Lobby

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The Night Hotel lobby, designed by Mark Zeff of Zeff Design, features custom beveled black glass panels by Bendheim.

Vikram Chatwal’s boutique Night Hotel, located in the vibrant Times Square, New York City, is a stylish creation, combining gothic and ultra-modern themes. A vision of a better Gotham City is at the heart of this award-winning design by Mark Zeff, and the hotel theme and interiors are inspired by the rhythm of the City. Executing the designer’s dark and dramatic concept called for luxury custom glass from Bendheim. The precision-cut, mirrored and mitered glass panels provide one of the most striking design elements of the Night’s lobby.
The Night Hotel is located in the heart of New York City’s Theater District on West 45th Street. The project received a Best of Year Interior Design Merit Award and was featured on the cover of Interior Design Magazine.

Bendheim Architectural Glass Makes a Splash at Kelsey Seybold Clinic

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Layers of glass, color, texture, and depth… Aquatic, organic, soothing…

Words that well describe the main lobby accent wall and reception stations at Kelsey Seybold Clinic, located in Houston, Texas. The structure houses multiple medical practices and incorporates seven separate reception desks, each containing five stations used for patient admissions.

Bendheim’s architectural River Ice patterned glass offers an excellent water-like quality – one of the reasons it was selected for this project.
As Laurie Waggener, RRT, IIDA, interior designer with HKS, Inc. explained, “the design challenge was to create a main lobby backdrop and admission stations that created a safe and pleasing space, and at the same time, allowed visual privacy from one admission area to the next. We also needed to respond to sections of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and meet budget.”
To meet the project specifications including safety, privacy, aesthetics, and budget, multiple plies of Bendheim’s glass were laminated with an interlayer of a custom turquoise film, and as Waggener commented, “with Bendheim’s help, the intended installation and aesthetics were achieved and the results met our expectations. Bendheim was recommended by another senior designer at HKS. The accurate technical advice… shortened my learning curve and made the experience with Bendheim smooth and easy.”
The delivery and installation went well for general contractor Isidro Velez of Schoppman Freese. As Velez explained, ” the admissions station partitions were definitely a challenge due to the unusual glass shape. The main challenge was in the layout and making sure that the angle of the glass fins fit both the soffets and mill work correctly… everything went according to schedule.”

Melville Thomas Architects Create Fresh Ideas with Bendheim Patterned SatinTech® Etched Glass

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A stunning new 22,000 sq. ft. office build out in a complex situated on Pier 4 at the Baltimore Inner Harbor for MMA Financial, LLC. The credit for this successful installation goes to Melville Thomas Architects, who started with just windows and columns, and created the rest!

Melville Thomas was first introduced to  Bendheim’s architectural glasses when Laura Thomas and George Thomas, principals at Melville Thomas Architects, discovered  Bendheim at Build Boston, an annual event for design, building and management professionals.

 

Design challenges meet their match with Bendheim
According to Mark Angielski, the project architect, there were many design challenges with this project. “We wanted to create privacy in all the office spaces and let maximum daylight into the interior at the same time. Other challenges included generating a sense of spaciousness in corridors of minimum code width, and establishing a seamless flow for traffic through the elevator lobby.”

 

Privacy + plenty of natural light
Bendheim’s Etched Fiber SatinTech® patterned glass provided the ideal solution for the aesthetic and functional job specs. As Mark described, “for the interior office walls, we used SatinTech up to door head height and clear glass above. The result is that privacy is ensured and plenty of daylight streams into the interior office spaces through the top portion of the glass walls.”

 

Sense of spaciousness
“Working with corridors of minimum code required width, we installed the same SatinTech glass horizontally, and used the grooved textured side of the glass on the corridor side of the wall. The result is a soft feel as you walk down the corridor – a wider, more relaxed atmosphere.”

 

Natural direction for traffic flow
“In the elevator lobby, SatinTech provides subtle direction for traffic. We installed it in full sliding pocket doors at one end of the space so the doors blend seamlessly with the SatinTech walls on either side. Clear glass doors were installed at the other end of the lobby. The result is a natural flow for traffic to the operative lobby doors.”

 

“Bendheim provided excellent industry and product knowledge, and quick delivery of the product, which helped us stay on track. It was extremely easy working with Bendheim in New Jersey for a project located in Maryland. Delivery and installation was on time and seamless. We look forward to working with Bendheim on our future projects.”

 

From the contractor: A hassle-free installation, finished on time!
The Chesapeake Contracting Group, Inc., located in Reisterstown Maryland, completed the construction. As Michael Ginsberg, project manager, pointed out “the Bendheim staff was great. We didn’t have any problems, and we didn’t have to wait for the glass!”
Thanks to photographer Anne Gummerson for use of project images in this article.