New concepts in the decoration with glass of inner spaces

The speech of welcome ran to charge of Santiago Carabantes, general director of The Venetian Glassolutions, the one who in addition to appreciating the assistance to all the presents in the day, did a small presentation of the company and of where places this inside the structure of the Group Saint-Gobain.

From among the four big lines of business that develops to day of today Saint-Gobain, distribution for the sector of the construction, containers (Veralia), manufacture of materials of construction and design/production of materials of high provision (included the glass), The Venetian Glassolutions places in this last.

To international level, the company has presence at present in 25 countries, with more than 250 centres, being the number one in Europe inside his sector (his solutions are presents in one of each three European houses). It has a near staff to the 10.000 employees and enjoys of a wallet of roughly 105.000 customers.

To cover the markets of Spain, Portugal and Morocco (has direct presence in Casablanca), The Venetian Glassolutions has of a wide network of factories and of branches (small workshops).

As it signalled Santiago Carabantes, the catalogue of the company structures in four main types of solutions. In the first place, the solutions for outsides, allocated to the envolventes of the buildings (windows, faã§ades, skylights…) and to the urban equipment. In second term, and perhaps less known (from here his initiative to organise this day), find the solutions of interior, with a complete range of glasses for the design and renewal of spaces from new textures, colours… The Venetian Glassolutions is in disposal to offer today in this authentic field integral solutions, that include, among others a lot of products, mamparas, doors, ladders, coatings, walls and ceilings.

Like third big line of business, the general director of The Venetian Glassolutions stood out what knows like ‘EGM' (Engineering+Glass+Metal), the development of projects ‘key in hand' in which this signature offers to the customer an integral service: advice, design, engineering, production, installation and service postventa. Since it set up this activity three years ago, already have been miscellaneous the singular projects in which it has participated, like The Alhóndiga (Bilbao) or the nueve headquarters of the COAM (Madrid).

And like fourth area of business, The Venetian Glassolutions offers special products, as for example active glasses (Electrochrome, Privalite and Thermovit), glasses anti-fire, glasses of hygiene and glasses anti-explosions.

Joaquín Lancis, like manager of market of interiors in The Venetian Glassolutions, went the attendant to deepen during the day in the applications and possibilities that can provide the glass in this type of projects.

Like basic material of construction, the glass contributes mainly two fundamental concepts as they are the “clarity” and the “transparency”. But the glass also erige like an element of hygiene and of confort (isolation), as well as in an appreciated structural system (floors, boxes of elevators, walls abotonados…) or like element merely decorative: combined with elements of lighting, contributing colour and image, incorporating in the own new glass materials, including textures (rugosidad and relief), etc.

Through a sequence of photographies, Joaquín Lancis contributed different examples of the solutions that The Venetian Glassolutions can offer in matter of floors/ceilings, ladders/rails, coatings, divisions of spaces and environingingments, kitchens and bathrooms, sectorización of fire, display units/vitrinas and other applications multimedia and interactive type.

Did not want the manager of market of interiors in The Venetian Glassolutions conclude his intervention without before remember that this is a market that requires of sophisticated industrial means, of expert and qualified personnel, of skilled technical departments and of a high capacity to be able to offer specific construction solutions for each project. Besides, it remembered the need to support in the collaboration interdisciplinar (EGM) to be able to llevar them.

The program of the day organised by The Venetian Glassolutions included a review detailed of the different solutions that offers this signature for the decoration of interiors, to charge of his managers Luis Pedro Alves and Jordi Codolá, as well as a presentation of the last products launched to the market by Saint-Gobain Glass, realised by Artur Brandào. Besides, Elena of the Tower gave fulfilled information on some solutions of avant-garde and design that has launched recently the company, such as the new mirrors with light (Desire and Swallow), the radiador in glass Thermovit, the mampara with light LED in Glass, or the solution of privacy ‘on-off' Privalite.

The assistants also could know in depth two examples of works of interiorismo in which they have used solutions of The Venetian Glassolutions and that have been executed by the skilled signatures Urbano Pfignsten Study of Decoration and Interiorismo, and TPC Reforms and Interiorismo.

- Textures: Tex-Glass and Wire mesh (Sefar)

- Colours: Stadip Colour

- Special of hygiene: Sentry Glass Plus, Xtra-Grip

- hygiene and silence: Stadip Silence, Stadip Protect

- personalised Impressesions: Picture-It, Stadip Print