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Bendheim SatinTech® Glass Featured on DIY Network’s “BATHtastic!” TV Show

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Maintenance-Friendly, Elegant Etched Glass Enhances Bathroom Spa Makeover

The DIY Network’s show “BATHtastic!” turned to Bendheim for the second time to obtain specialty decorative glass for a dramatic, large-scale bathroom spa makeover.
The elegant satin-frosted aesthetic and maintenance-friendly surface of Bendheim’s SatinTech® architectural glass made it the ideal material for a new countertop and shelves, adding a touch of subtle luxury, modernizing the space, and enhancing its functionality. The episode is titled “Of Nerves and Nature.”
In the episode, a large outdated bathroom receives a major facelift featuring Bendheim’s ½” translucent etched glass countertop and shelves, precision-fabricated at the company’s New Jersey facility. Bendheim tempered the glass, making it four times stronger than regular non-safety glass of the same thickness. Unlike sandblasted or coated glasses, Bendheim’s SatinTech is acid-etched to produce an ultra-smooth satin-like surface which permanently resists stains and fingerprints.
“The glass will stand up to the test of time in this bathroom forever,” said the show’s host Matt Muenster.
The countertop’s and shelves’ satin surfaces complement the remodel’s nature-inspired, calming design featuring digitally printed basket-weave and pebble tiles, bubble-mosaic glass tiles, backlit circular mirrors, and contemporary rectangular sinks. The carefully coordinated design elements create a spa-like atmosphere.
Homeowners can order Bendheim’s SatinTech glass for complex custom installations, including bathroom and kitchen countertops, backsplashes, and tabletops through designers, contractors and professional installers. Patterned and fully etched glass door, cabinet and partition inserts can be ordered directly through the company’s Cabinet Glass website.

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In this episode, the hosts – licensed contractor Jason Cameron and former NFL star Tony “The Goose” Siragusa – turn an outdated bathroom into a man cave worthy of a king.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.

Bendheim’s “Campbell’s Red” Back-Painted Glass Wall Distinguishes Food Giant’s New Employee Center

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When the Campbell Soup Company recently held a grand opening for its new Employee Center in Camden, N.J., its distinctive corporate identity shone through vibrant Bendheim decorative glass.

Behind a transparent 38-foot-tall floor-to-ceiling glass facade, the food giant’s corporate logo features prominently on an expansive, 5,000 square foot Bendheim “Campbell’s red” back-painted glass wall. Bendheim worked closely with Campbell’s representatives to match exactly the signature red background color for the company’s highly recognizable logo. Bendheim’s color coating process incorporates a highly UV-resistant, water-based fluoropolymer formulated to preserve its color for many years. Bendheim cut, polished, tempered, and back-painted the glass, delivering first quality product within schedule and budget.
“Bendheim’s glass provides a backdrop for the corporate identity of this 141-year-old company, the only Fortune 500 company in Camden,” said Jerry Moser with R. A. Kennedy & Sons, the glazier responsible for the glass installation. “The wall of red glass, viewed through the north elevation’s curtainwall, is the focal point of the entire campus. R. A. Kennedy & Sons is proud to have participated in the realization of Campbell’s Soup Company and KlingStubbins LLP’s collective vision.”
Designed by KlingStubbins LLP, the new 80,000-square-foot Campbell’s Employee Center features a café, fitness center, company store and credit union, as well as conference rooms and a learning and development center.
Bendheim’s 100-percent vertically integrated fabrication facility in New Jersey made it a key partner in the success of this sensitive project. Please visit Our Capabilities web page for a list of available Bendheim glass fabrication services.

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.

New Window Featuring Bendheim’s Lamberts Art Glass Brings Life to Historic New York City Synagogue

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New Silicone Lamination Technique Makes Art Glass Masterpiece Possible

For more than 20 years, workers have been meticulously restoring the Eldridge Street’s 1887 synagogue and museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, revitalizing existing design elements and adding new complementary features to the 50-foot tall structure. The recent installation of a new 16-foot diameter stained glass window completed the renovation process of this National Historic Landmark.
Created through the collaboration of artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans, this spectacular window is comprised of over 1,200 hand-cut pieces of mouth-blown Lamberts art glass provided by Bendheim, an importer of specialty glass since 1927. The rose window features hundreds of the American flag’s five-pointed stars in blue and yellow, radiating from the Star of David at the center of the composition. Some of the stars have been selectively gold leafed to glow in reflected light.
“We used Lamberts acid etched flash glass and traditional silver stain. Then applied the glass using a new silicone lamination technology to create a kaleidoscopic layering of glass and color, resembling a double-layered quilt that infuses the space with an atmosphere of a lively cosmos,” explains Smith, who has been working with Lamberts glass for the past 20 years.
The lead-free lamination technique used in this artwork’s fabrication truly sets it apart. According to the fabricator, Thomas Garcia, owner of The Gil Studio, Inc., this monumental window would have been structurally impossible to build using the traditional leaded glass techniques.
“This is the first large-scale project (produced in the United States) using a more modern technique of lamination instead of the traditional lead method,” he said. The Gil Studio spent more than 500 hours cutting, etching, staining, and laminating the masterpiece.
The silicone lamination of art glass allows the creation of rich, painterly windows of unprecedented size and visual complexity. The technique bonds the carefully cut colored glass pieces to a base glass, creating an elaborate mosaic of light and color, free of the traditional dark lead or copper lines. The base glass can be tempered or laminated in order to meet building safety codes.
“In contrast to a traditional stained glass window, the pieces of glass in the Eldridge Street East Rose Window are separated by lines of light,” remarked Gans. “The field of stars is largely uninterrupted by shadows and reflects the color and light changes in the sky. The color nuance, so characteristic of Lamberts glass, is brought to the fore and truly makes the window come alive.”
Protected by a separate exterior sheet of safety glass, the decorative window is comprised of two layers of Lamberts art glass laminated to a 3/8” clear safety glass base. The layers of glass are shaped into six curved triangular panels, each assembled from hundreds of small colored glass pieces. Garcia selected the material from Bendheim, the sole importer of glass from Glashütte Lamberts of Germany for the last 80 years. Lamberts art glass is crafted through the original, centuries-old mouth-blown cylinder method and exhibits the extraordinary brilliance, structure, and optimal light refraction characteristic of true mouth-blown window glass.
“Having worked with Lamberts glass for over 30 years, I fully expected to find exactly what we needed for the Eldridge Street East Rose Window,” said Garcia. “The additional benefit was the willingness of the people at Bendheim and Lamberts in Germany to accommodate the wishes of Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans by slightly modifying the density of the color. All in all, it was a rewarding experience.”
While the rose window is modern and the only truly new element in the Historic Landmark, its design is in keeping with the architecture and history of the building.  Smith and Gans’ piece replaces a tablet-shaped glass block window installed in 1944 after the original stained glass was damaged. The museum opted for a new design when it determined the records of the original window had been lost.
Opened in 1887, the synagogue is reputed to be the first house of worship built by Eastern European Jews in the United States. After lying in a state of disrepair for nearly 50 years, the structure has been carefully restored to its original grandeur and re-opened to the public.
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.
 
About Lamberts Mouth-blown Glass:
Glashütte Lamberts of Germany has been producing mouth-blown sheet glasses for over 70 years. The centuries-old production method requires extraordinary craftsmanship to create these beautiful and unique glasses. Their unmistakable character is expressed through their body, texture, transparency, and glowing colors. 

 

Bendheim Launches New Art Glass Website for Architects & Designers, Wholesale Art Glass Customers

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Bendheim announces the launch of its new Art Glass website. The website allows architects and designers to browse a selection of more than 500 Lamberts Art Glasses by color or type, order glass samples, and view large-scale commercial, institutional and residential applications of the glass. The website’s Wholesale Accounts section is designed for glass artists, studios and retailers to browse and order from Bendheim’s thousands of glasses, tools & supplies.

Customers can now easily access the company’s exclusive collection of Lamberts art glasses online. Bendheim offers Lamberts mouth-blown glasses in more than 500 colors, with additional 5,000 varieties available through the Lamberts factory in Germany. The glass features varying degrees of opacity, shading, streakiness, and seediness. Hand-crafted utilizing the centuries-old mouth-blown cylinder method, each sheet is unique, exhibiting extraordinary brilliance, structure, and optimal light refraction in an extraordinary palette of colors.
Lamberts Art Glass is found in installations around the world. A Project Gallery demonstrates the ability of the glass to bring dramatic color and light into buildings ranging from airport terminals to federal courthouses.  The glass can also be provided in safety laminated form and waterjet-cut to almost any shape by Bendheim.
“The Art of Making Glass” video on the homepage demonstrates the antique window glass production techniques used in the making of Lamberts mouth-blown glass. A second video features Martha Stewart’s tour of the Bendheim New York City showroom and reveals the vast array of Lamberts Art Glass colors and textures