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In this episode, the hosts – licensed contractor Jason Cameron and former NFL star Tony “The Goose” Siragusa – turn an outdated bathroom into a man cave worthy of a king.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

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.

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.