Decorative glass block
The appearance of the product itself can be compared with hollow glass bricks consisting of two fabricated semi -blocks. There is air in the hermetically sealed cavity, which gives excellent soundproofing and heat -saving properties. Reliable operational characteristics of the material determine its widespread use for construction and design purposes. The walls of the blocks are made of thick 6-8 mm glass, which provides high strength and durability. Such products do not require special care, do not burn and are not at all afraid of moisture.
The first rather rude bricks appeared on the construction market back in Soviet times. Made from dirty green cloudy glass with an uneven surface, they were little like modern samples of design art, and they could not be about the use of them for decorative decoration of the premises. However, during the construction of non -residential buildings, this material was very popular: it is enough to recall the greenish windows from glass blocks in production rooms and public baths.
Today, decorative blocks of glass are suitable for decorating all premises of living space: from the hallway to the bath, from loggia to the winter garden. The free flight of design thought is possible thanks to the widest assortment of textures, colors and forms of this finishing material. The standard rectangles are replaced by corner, triangular and even round blocks produced by modern manufacturers in response to wide consumer demand.
glass block partitions
This or that version of the execution of decorative finishing bricks should be chosen depending on the future sphere and its place of use. For example, transparent glass blocks that pass about 85 % of the light flow, look quite organically in a small -sized apartment as a dividing partition. The artificially constructed wall between the common room and the small front visually adds volume, concealing the outlines of objects and visually combining the rooms. For an even more “blurry” image, you can dwell on products with a matte surface, which absorb about half a light flow.
Glass corrugated blocks with such romantic names as “wave” or “drop” are most often made colorless. Thanks to the combination of light -controlle and light -sculsing characteristics, depending on the location of the faces, they allow only the silhouettes of objects without excessive detail. The spectrum of colored bricks is limited to green, red, blue and yellow models, but the gamut of shades itself is extremely diverse. Special staining technology guarantees the invariability of the color structure that does not burn out and does not change during operation.
Exclusive finishing materials include glass blocks with inserts of various topics. Images of wildlife, still lifes and sea shells are replaced here by portraits of famous personalities and paintings with original plots: historical, erotic and any other.
Another fashionable direction in the field of design developments was glass bricks with an original pattern made of colored balls. Many smallest bubbles are formed in images of animals, birds or landscape, allowing to recreate the panels of amazing beauty and reliefs. Stained glass compositions from the “design” multicolor glass, which, however, due to the complex and expensive production process, have not yet received large -scale distribution.