about fusing

Fusing, Hot Glass, American stained glass, Smelted Glass, Artistic glass works

Different names which describe the same technology of an artistic work with glass. Pate-de-verre - an old method of smelting and forming glass powder, which was already known to the Ancient Egyptians, has now been developed to a new method of smelting whole glass plates (float, antisol and others). For a few decades now special ovens have been used for glass treatment. Recently those ovens have been equipped with modern computer control systems.

Various kinds of glass are used – blank glass, coloured glass and also other materials such as glass paints, metal oxides, metal rasping and minerals. When the thermal treatment is over, it usually comes to other interventions that may be done to finish the work. The glass works can be then finished by sand blasting, polishing, chamfering, cutting or gluing.

When finished, the works of glass may become a part of furniture or an element of architecture, joined with timber, stone, metal or other material according to a customer's wish. They obviously may become a finished product ready for use. This is the way the works of art like sculptures or paintings as well as objects of daily use like pieces of furniture, elements of architecture or interior decoration elements come into being. The example of usage of the artistic glass can be glass doors, colourless or colourful which not only match the character of a room, but also function as an additional light.

Glass doors of this type have recently become more and more commonly used element which designers place in hotel interiors, SPAs, restaurants and private residences. Artistic glass can also be found as glass walls or elevation elements, mosaic or furniture elements. Artistic glass can also be used in a very attractive way in illuminating elements such as hanging lamps or lamp brackets. This technology gives practically unlimited options of design when we speak of objects such as the following: epergnes/plates, flowerpots, mirrors, candlesticks, plates and bowls, lamps, lampshades, clocks, ashtrays, business cards, tiles, partition walls, stairways, balustrades, screens, doors, shower cabins, counters and tables, washbasins, furniture elements, sign-boards, advertisements, logotypes and gadgets.