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The purpose of this project was to replace a panel made from horrible cheap clear glass, which had been splashed on with white paint by someone who had no idea how to paint. It beggars belief that a workman would do such a thing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the client wanted to design the panel himself. Great. Here’s how it went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
I had a mountain of off-cuts, so we piled into them together and pulled out any piece that took our fancy. We shuffled them together, overlapping and all at odd angles. It was fun.<\/p>\n

We decided to have a narrow border, and also liked the idea of spilling into and across the border whenever we had a nice piece of glass we wanted to bring to the fore.<\/p>\n

Design anarchy!<\/td>\n

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Texture, colour and angles. We had many pieces of great glass to play with.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\"pop1\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Eventually the design settled down and I had to make some sense of it. Even though we can be free-spirited with our juxtapositioning of the glass during the exploration phase, I still had to come up with a very accurate cartoon.<\/p>\n

I allowed the angles and curves to remain intact. So, the design wouldn’t become formal. I didn’t want to impose my own tendency to make everything symmetrical, for example.<\/td>\n

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Jump ahead to having put the piece together and here we see one of the final stages where I use talcum powder to dry up the cement. Just the cleaning up stage left to do.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\"pop3\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Wow! It looks great. Your eye dances over it looking for symmetry or a recognisable form, and there isn’t one.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\"pop4\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Here it is in situ. Lots of light behind it, making the textured glass sparkle and the colours reflect onto the kitchen walls.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\"pop5\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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This was a really satisfying project because the client became very involved, the panel it was replacing was awful and the result is fantastic.<\/p>\n

AND, because we used almost entirely off-cuts from previous projects it turned out to cost next to nothing to make.<\/td>\n

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