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Discussion For the past four years, Joel Berman Glass Studio has faithfully exhibited at Neocon – but never like this. Open just in time for the 2002 show, Berman's Merchandise Mart showroom, his first outside Vancouver, Canada, is stealing the scene on the 11th floor (space 1173). Introductions to inaugurate the new digs include two panel types resulting from a brand-new casting method. Corrugated glass panels were first used as sculptural elements for Gap's headquarters in San Francisco; Arrigado panels, seen in the showroom as cantilevered ailing components, are available in clear, frosted, matte, colored, or as a thermoformed polycarbonate for ease of installation (and budget). Citing Stanlislav Libensky as an early influence, Berman works artistic wonders with a commonplace building material. His patented coloring method, for example, functions at the molecular level. Each of his glass products can be tinted any hue on the Pantone scale, though a more limited specification guide is available for the overwhelmed client. Berman's kiln-cast glass also comes in a host of textures, in every imaginable permutation of speckling, spotting, and rippling. Berman's vanguard company has even developed an innovative recycling process for tempered glass. With his studio staff of 55 handpicked from all over the world, Berman is taking glass to a whole new level. We're excited to explore with him. |
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