The Archetype Studio represents the bleeding edge of laminated glass innovation – a dedicated space for pushing boundaries, exploring possibilities, and bringing impossible concepts to reality. This is where our proprietary processes that other manufacturers simply can’t recreate come to life through experimentation, collaboration, and relentless pursuit of the extraordinary.
If you can imagine it, we can create it. The Studio is where custom doesn’t mean “more expensive” or “time consuming” – it means unlimited creative freedom to develop exactly what your vision demands, no matter how unconventional or challenging the concept may seem.
Our Studio work spans four distinct areas of exploration, each representing a different path to creating one-of-a-kind laminated glass solutions that expand the boundaries of what’s possible in architectural glass.
Wild Ideas • R&D Results • Client Requests • Making the Impossible
Through our unique and proprietary process that laminates multiple layers of glass and mediums, our design solutions are impossible to find anywhere else. The Studio takes this foundation and pushes it to its absolute limits.
We love a good challenge – have a design in mind that requires a custom laminated layer? We’ll innovate the process to ensure we can bring your vision to life. From exotic fabrics and specialty metals to organic materials and technological components, our R&D capabilities know no bounds.
Beyond traditional fabric, metal, and color interlayers, the Studio explores everything from living materials to smart technologies. We’ve embedded everything from crystals to circuit boards, creating glass that’s not just beautiful but functionally revolutionary.
With our in-house industrial waterjet cutting table, we create any shape of custom laminated glass your design calls for. Need delicately slotted, perforated, or impossibly complex geometries? Our expert glass cutters thrive on projects that others consider impossible.
From hand-blown and rolled textures to surfaces that have never been attempted before, we combine traditional artisanal techniques with cutting-edge technology to create textures that exist nowhere else in the world.
With an unlimited selection of light transmitting densities and custom optical properties, we engineer how light behaves within and through our glass, creating installations that transform throughout the day and interact with their environments.
The Studio specializes in combining multiple technologies within single installations – mixing Interpainted™ colors with metal mesh, textured surfaces with graphic elements, or fabric interlayers with custom etchings to create compositions of unprecedented complexity.
Every Studio project begins with a conversation and ends with a solution that has never existed before. Our collaborative approach ensures that your vision isn’t just realized – it’s elevated beyond what you initially thought possible.
Share your wildest ideas with our innovation team. No concept is too ambitious or unconventional – we thrive on challenges that push the boundaries of possibility.
Our R&D team analyzes the technical requirements and explores multiple pathways to achieve your vision, often discovering new techniques in the process.
We create test samples and prototypes, refining the process and materials until we achieve the exact aesthetic and performance characteristics you need.
If existing techniques aren’t sufficient, we invent new ones. Our proprietary processes are constantly evolving to accommodate increasingly ambitious projects.
Once perfected, we scale the innovation for full production while maintaining the hand-crafted quality that makes each piece truly one-of-a-kind.
Hand-crafted one-of-a-kind artisanal architectural glass produced with industrial efficiency – this philosophy drives everything we create in the Studio. When the materials used in a space are themselves pieces of art that have never existed before, that’s the ultimate difference Archetype Glass makes.
Many of our Studio projects begin as research initiatives – exploring new materials, testing unprecedented combinations, or developing solutions for challenges that don’t yet have answers. These explorations often lead to breakthrough products that eventually find their way into our standard offerings.
Some of our most remarkable innovations come directly from client requests that seem impossible at first glance. We’ve developed entirely new lamination techniques, custom machinery, and proprietary processes specifically to meet individual project requirements that pushed us into uncharted territory.
The Studio also serves as our playground for pure experimentation – testing materials that have never been laminated, exploring optical effects that have never been achieved, and combining elements in ways that challenge conventional understanding of what glass can be and do.
Not only does that ensure your design will be unique – it also means we can create exactly what your vision, and your clients’ vision, calls for, regardless of how far outside conventional categories it may fall.
Whether you have a wild idea, an impossible challenge, or a vision that doesn’t fit any existing category, the Archetype Studio is where dreams become laminated glass reality.
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