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Bendheim Glass Among “Builder News” 2010 Best Building Products

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Bendheim glass is among fifteen carefully selected multi-family building product winners featured in the December issue of Builder News magazine.

The collection, designed by Robert A.M. Stern for Bendheim, encompasses four etched pattern glass designs that draw their inspiration from the visual arts and architectural design. All are produced on ultra-clear low-iron float glass, utilizing technologically advanced methods with particular attention to the strictest environmental protection standards. Etched on both sides of the glass, the designs lend a strong sense of dimensionality and movement, allowing them to dynamically interact with light and surrounding design elements.

 

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.

Glass Artist Nancy Nicholson Recreates City Life Using Light, Color & Lamberts® Art Glass

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Nancy’s “East Village Sunset” art glass panel becomes part of the “The Art of Craftsmanship Revisited: New York” collaborative initiative of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Parsons School

 
“There is something so special about the way the light hits the glass; the way the color is revealed,” says Nancy Nicholson, a stained glass artist with 25 years of experience and a long-time Bendheim Art Glass customer. “When the light changes, the colors are shifting constantly; different textures distort what you see through the glass…It feels very much alive.”
Nancy is one of a select few New York City artisans to take part in the initiative “The Art of Craftsmanship Revisited: New York,” a collaborative project of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Parsons – The New School for Design. The initiative brings Parsons’ students together with New York City artisans to celebrate the tradition of authenticity, creativity and craftsmanship. Working closely with the artists, students create original fashion ensembles and short documentary films inspired by their work.
The “Light Shift” documentary captures Nancy Nicholson’s creative process from design and glass selection to the completion of an elegant art glass piece. As Nancy examines the shelves filled with Lamberts Art Glass in Bendheim’s Passaic, New Jersey warehouse, she looks for the desired textures and colors to create a one-of-a-kind canvas for her design.
A pale-yellow glass sheet with graceful streaks of green and red catches Nancy’s eye, and she holds it up to the window. As she checks the glass against the light, the colors come alive, bouncing, shifting and merging playfully in a series of dramatic transformations.
Hand-crafted utilizing the centuries-old mouth-blown method, each sheet of Lamberts Art Glass is unique. It exhibits extraordinary brilliance and structure, optimal light refraction, and a rich color palette. Colors are produced following medieval formulas, carefully mixing measured amounts of metal oxides into the glass batch. Bendheim, the exclusive supplier of Lamberts Art Glass in North America, offers a rich palette of more than 500 in-stock colors, with more than 5,000 colors accessible through the Lamberts factory in Germany.
Nancy transforms the colorful Lamberts glass pieces into an East Village cityscape, exploring the layering of light and color to recreate the urban environment’s dynamic forms.
“Glass is a metaphor for how I see the world,” she says. “Glass, like life, is elusive and constantly changing.”

“The Construction Specifier” Front Cover Features Bendheim Wall Systems’ Channel Glass

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The Construction Specifier Magazine’s May 2010 issue contains a feature story on how to specify channel glass, written by Jim Donoghue, Technical Services Manager of Bendheim Wall Systems Inc.

The detailed ten-page article discusses design and specification standards required for the proper application of channel glass. Featured on the front cover of the magazine is Bendheim’s award-winning Pratt Institute – Higgins Hall, designed by Steven Holl and Rogers Marvel Architects. Included in the article are numerous additional channel glass projects of architectural and cultural importance, as well as informative product photos.

Segerstrom Science Center, Azusa Pacific University: Faith, Science, and Lamberts® Channel Glass

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Lamberts channel glass provided by Bendheim Wall Systems completes the dramatic façade of the new Segerstrom Science Center at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California, located by historic Route 66 north of Los Angeles.

For the $42 million building at California’s first Bible college, A.C. Martin Partners, Inc. took advantage of the unique structural properties of Lamberts channel glass. The single- and double-glazed walls of obscuring channel glass combine privacy with excellent light-scattering properties and fill the Science Center’s new laboratories and study areas with gentle daylight. In an unusual enhancement, the entrance walls of the building display Biblical quotations sandblasted onto the glass surface.
Lamberts channel glass features up to 40% post-consumer material contributing to the overall sustainability of the project and its target of LEED Gold certification. From the safety standpoint, Lamberts channel glass is the only tempered, heat soak tested channel glass to be SGCC (Safety Glazing Certification Council) certified. Installation of the channel glass was handled by Corona Aluminum.
Bendheim Wall Systems is the exclusive North American importer of Lamberts channel glass, translucent, U-shaped glass planks assembled to create sweeping walls of glass without the need for intermediate framing members. An ideal daylighting material, Lamberts channel glass is produced in lengths up to 23 feet. Recent award-winning projects include the Bloch Building/Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art by Steven Holl Architects, Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects and Planners, and Serta International Center by Epstein | Metter Studio.