Partitions have recently become more and more used as flooring for both entertainment areas and for private homes. They give a special charm and originality to the prestigious bars, nightclubs, and to the home decors as well. Floor made of decorative glass adds some surrealism, elegance, sophistication to the room it [...]
Today, glass floors can be seen as a spectacular interior element in administrative and office buildings, shopping malls, concert halls, restaurants and boutiques. Interiors of the apartments and town houses did not done without the influence of this newfangled trend.
As well as any construction, glass floor is composed of many separate details – the parts. Let’s list them in bottom-up order.
The best designers appreciate the lightness and transparency which it is possible to give to the interior with the use of glass doors. But aside from creating in the room feeling of lightness and scope glass doors can also be a sign of respectability and solidity. Clear geometry of the lines [...]
Float glass – is a sheet glass which is manufactured by using the method of thermoforming on the molten metal. This method is the most modern in the manufacture of sheet glass, as well as the most popular. This method is also called the float method. Float glass is a basis [...]
For most people, stained glass windows are associated with the Gothic cathedrals and rays of light that pierce the colored glass pieces, which form a mosaic.
Tinted or plate glass – it is glass that has a proper film. In the production plate glass is applied to the thin silver film, colored glass is made by either the film or by adding a colorant to the batch. Nowadays tinted glass (with a slight tinge of brown, green, [...]
Reinforced glass is glass, armoured by wire grid. Grid is welded from steel wire, which can be covered by protective aluminum coating – such grids are used for top quality glass. Side of the grid cell is usually 12,5 or 25 mm. The grid should be located throughout the sheet area [...]
Figure glass usually has sharp relief pattern on the or the both of it’s surfaces and can be either colourless or colour. The colour ones are made by adding dye into liquid glass or by applying coloured oxide metal covering on the one of the surfaces.
Solar control glasses either reflect or absorb solar radiation.
