Glazings constitute a refined and essential furnishing accessory for residential, commercial, professional, or industrial interiors. Whether it involves artistic glazings, glass partitions, full-height glazings, or frosted glazings used to divide spaces while keeping brightness intact, even where fire-resistant characteristics are required, the glazings designed and produced by Vetreria Re are able to satisfy aesthetic, security, thermal insulation, and acoustic insulation requirements.
Artistic Glazings by Vetreria Re
Regarding artistic glazings, Vetreria Re offers decorations with lead caming, gold leaf, enameling or painting, sandblasted glazings, laminated glazings with fabric and metal meshes, or frosted finishes (on one side, both sides, or as a decoration). The lead caming technique allows for the assembly of various colored fragments, inserted into a metal frame of thin lead profiles, to create highly refined artistic glazings. Equally refined is the decoration technique using gold or silver leaf, capable of conferring an exclusive finesse to artistic glazings, allowing for the creation of furnishing accessories, partitions, display cases, or glazings distinguished by timeless elegance.
Furthermore, glazings can be colored through painting or enameling, and possibly given a frosted finish on one or both sides or as a decoration through the sandblasting technique. This process confers a characteristic opacity via high-pressure silica sand jets that erode the glass surface. Frosted glazings let light filter through, providing continuity to different environments, but protect privacy by preventing a clear view of what happens beyond the glass. The techniques of lamination with fabric or metal meshes allow for the creation of artistic glazings with unique effects provided by the choice of fabric, colors, and patterns, or particular chromatic combinations and scenic effects based on the type of metal used, its treatment, assembly, and combination with other materials or metals, ensuring a high-quality Finish.
The Applications of Glazings
Glazings can also be used to create partitions and dividers—architectural elements that allow for spatial divisions without generating a sense of closure and without reducing the light supply in various rooms, in domestic environments as well as in offices, banks, commercial establishments, showrooms, and public spaces. Glazings used as dividing elements must primarily ensure high safety levels (see the legal requirements regarding accident-prevention glass), as glass breakage could pose a danger to the safety of people or property: for this reason, these glazings are made exclusively using flat safety glass.
Secondly, glazings used to create fixed or mobile partitions must guarantee a good level of Acoustic Silence to protect different rooms from noise, thus allowing different activities to be carried out simultaneously. Finally, dividing glazings should contribute to thermal insulation, reducing heat dispersion between rooms and allowing for the formation of different microclimates based on preferences and needs, maximizing domestic Comfort.
Vetreria Re, over 20 Years of Glass Processing
Vetreria Re also handles the production of self-supporting glazings for curtain walls—particularly complex structural elements whose technical and construction difficulties can be overcome through the use of the Spiderglass fixing system and U-profiled glass (U-Glass). The Spiderglass point-fixing system (VEA system) allows for the creation of larger self-supporting glazed surfaces compared to traditional fixing systems of equal thickness. Suitable for the external cladding of facades of significant size, as well as for glazings intended to separate interior environments, the Spiderglass fixing system is based on the use of special stainless steel ball-joint bolts (“rotules”) that allow for the creation of canopies, self-supporting vertical facades, interior partitions, building roofs, and much more.
U-Glass, on the other hand, allows for the creation of self-supporting glazings for external or internal use, dividers, internal partitions and decorative elements, cladding, roofing, canopies, and more. A translucent profiled glass, available in reinforced or low-emissivity versions, U-Glass is distinguished by its typical U-section and its rippled surface that uniformly diffuses light and solar rays within the various environments. Available for custom glass and crystal work, Vetreria Re offers the production of artistic, structural, industrial, or security glazings according to the specifications provided by the client.