A CLEARLY GREAT PHOTO PROVOKES ONE SIMPLE QUESTION. WHAT KIND OF GLASS IS THIS?

View from inside a London interior looking through an architectural glass pane onto the street. (above)
Photo courtesy of and by AT

So was out to dinner with dear friend AT last night...AT is in from London for a bit.

For some reason, instead of conversing like normal people, we were scrolling through AT's iPhone looking at pictures, when I came across this cool photo featured above. AT promised to email it to me immediately but didn't...you know the story by now...so I woke up this morning, called, emailed and generally hounded yet another friend and voila, here it is.

Love this photo taken of a London street as seen from inside a building, through the front door and through a glass pane. A glass light in the door that looks like the bottom of a bottle; thick architectural glass of some kind with a circular pattern that gives the effect looking at the world through a drop hitting a pool of still water. Love the textures, the distorted images of the cars and buildings across the way, and the dreamy feel of this photo.

On a more mundane level, I just saw glass. I wondered and wonder...what kind of glass is this? I had seen it only once before...this past summer in Paris (see photo below). But before then, never. European, one might deduce, perhaps...

Am I clueless? (Do not answer this question generally...only posed for this specific reason...afraid of how some I know might answer if I left this open for general comment)

Is this glass so common that all of you all are going to think I am a dunderhead?

(Coco secretly hopes that the answers to the above questions are both "no". If they are "yes", Coco must immediately stop watching bad reality television shows and start reading really big important books, attending art lectures, doing complex math problems for fun, involving herself in highly intellectual discussions about literature, politics and philosophy...in sum doing a major re-training/education of her now mushy mind. Please say no...please say no...)

Okay you architects, designers or just smart people out there...what kind of glass is this? Do tell?


A high gloss red wood door in Paris that features thick green glass panes that look like the bottom of a bottle. (I know, photo is blurry, but I had never planned on posting it...AT's photo forced me to make a connection) (above)
Photo by Coco of Nbaynadamas

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Write by: AN - Tuesday, March 31, 2009