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 Cococozy
HI,
It look like bullseye glass. I live in Boston and alot of the older homes have it.
I see ‘anonymous’ answered your question – it’s so interesting.
Hi Anonymous.
Thank you so much for your speedy response. Appreciate it!
I looked up bullseye glass though and cannot find any pictures that match this…not sure if it is the same thing.
Anyone else have any ideas? Or Anyonymous can you share a link or a picture or something?
the first one looks like a bullet went through and caused a ripple-effect, like in water. yes, the others look like the bottom of wine bottles. but the similarity i find in all is that they look like they were inspired by boobs.
The first photo looks like the car was in a bad crash!
I think that it’s from the way they used to blow glass by mouth. the bulls-eye in the center is from where the blower went, and then the glass spread out from there. this was before they knew how to roll out glass, and it’s also why old glass is wavy. the mark in the center is called the pontil mark, where the pontil, or blowing stick was attached to the molten glass.
I just found this post and thought I would contribute. It is “bullseye” glass. Bullseye glass is the ungrinded result of crown glass (an early window manufacturing method). Often times they would grind the bullseye down as much as possible then cut glass from around it.
I would attach links but that feature appears to be disabled. Some examples of reproduction bullseye glass can be found at http://www.sugarhollowglass.com (i’m in no way affiliated)
Hope I helped!
Try “rondel.”
What necessary words… super, a magnificent idea