Opal and Opaque Glasses
Opal and Opaque Glasses are semi-transparent and/or non-transparent and transform the crossing light into a damped, diffuse flare. Special glass composants added to the mixture of the glass provoke the opacity.
Opal and Opaque Glasses are semi-transparent and/or non-transparent and transform the crossing light into a damped, diffuse flare. Special glass composants added to the mixture of the glass provoke the opacity.
It´s not possible to look through opaque glass. Opal glass is a clouded, translucent glass.
It appears milky white (or with color), is translucent but not fully transparent.
Production
Worked in the flashed glass technique this milky glass in the shape of a thin layer on clear or coloured basic glass is available in panel sizes of about 60x90cm (24" x 36"). Whether unicoloured, multi-coloured or marbled Opal and Opaque Glasses are suited to art works in windows and doors with inhibited view as well as backlighted wall installations.
Technique and Colours
Our mouth-blown opaque and opal glasses are produced in one color, multicolor and with a marble effect.
opaque flash on clear basic glass; non-transparent
opal flash on clear basic glass; semi-transparent
stormy opal flash on clear basic glass; partially transparent and semi-transparent
Here you can see some examples of different shades, structures and densities of opal and opaque glass:
1064U opal on clear, light
1064U opal on clear, normal
1064U opal on clear, dense
1064U opal on clear, stormy
1064U opal on clear, cloudy shaded
1064U opal on clear, reamy
1064U opal dense on clear, reamy
1064U opal on clear, stormy, reamy
1064U opal on clear, crackled
3446U opaque on clear, normal
3446U opaque on clear, gradated shaded
3446U opaque on clear, marmorited
3446U opaque on clear, reamy
Our mouth-blown opaque and opal glasses are produced in one color, multicolor and with a marble effect.
Fields of application
Opal and opaque glasses are particularly suitable for artistically designed window and door panels with restricted transparency and for backlit wall designs.
Biomedicum - | Glass-Light-Wall
For the new construction of a laboratory building for Karolinska Institutet Akademiska Hus instructed us to manufacture a customized glass. For the “Glass-Light-Wall” which should not look architectonic and beautiful only but be functional as well we produced a complex double-flashed glass with marbled shading. To complete the four facades 1.914 sheets of LambertsGlas® have been processed to a laminated glass in the size of 550x880mm each to be installed in a very clever assembly and lighting fixture.
Exklusive design with mouth-blown glass
One of the best-known buildings in the world is no doubt the Elizabeth Tower in London. Built in 1958, the 90 meter high clock tower holding “Big Ben”, is part of the Palace of Westminster. Together with Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret’s Church, it was declared a UNESCO world cultural heritage site.
In the restoration and new glazing of the four clock faces of “Big Ben”, around 1300 mouth-blown glass panels were used.
These were cut to shape after production and put together as the world-famous clock faces.
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Waterlooville
Hagleitner (CSC), Milano
CELTIC MYTHS & LEGENDS WINDOW
Glass Tower "Ascent"
Lincoln, NE, USA
Artist: Jun Kaneko
The tower is about 16 m high and has a diameter of 230 cm. 80 panes of hand-blown Lambertsglas® were laminated onto safety glass (VSG). The entire engineering - statics, steel, lighting design and glass art - was taken over by Derix Glasstudios Taunusstein.
Execution: Derix Glasstudios Taunusstein
Photo: Karl Heinz Traut
Detroit Jesuit High School, Seven Mile, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Lutherstadt Eisleben - Lutheran Church of St. Peter and Paul
Location: Lutherstadt Eisleben - Lutheran Church of St. Peter and Paul.
Total glazing of the eleven nave windows.
Artist: Günter Grohs
Description of execution: Lead glazing in different lead thicknesses with the use of
mouth-blown genuine antique glass (white to gray-blue) with different structures and bubbles,
partially opal and opaque flashed glass; stained glass with wiped black solder coatings and silver gel
silver gel applications.
Execution: Glasmalerei Peters Studios in collaboration with Günter Grohs.
Photographs: Frank Bilda
Indianapolis Airport
Moses and the Burning Bush, Lutheran Immanuel Church Aachen
Here you can see a short video, which should give you a better idea of the character of these glasses:
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1064 U White opal on clear normal -
1064 U White opal on clear stormy -
3446 U opaque on clear, marbled -
mixed glass selenium with different colours marbled and opak on clear -
silver-yellow and green dipped shaded on clear -
selenium-yellow, ribbed and opalis on clear -
blue and opaque on clear, dipped shaded -
blue twisted and opaque on clear -
blue and opalis ribbed on clear -
blue and opalis ribbed on clear -
selenium-orange and opaque-white marbled on clear
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