
Best Things: Conceal and reveal
Remember my post last year about Samuel Zeller’s glasshouse photographs? I remain a fan of glass that’s neither frosted nor tinted, but which gives a broken transparency that does great things to light and shapes, and a conceal/reveal sexiness too. There’s a whole variety of names for architectural glasses like this, such as: reeded glass, hammered glass, chickenwire glass, cross-reeded glass. So I’ve put together a collection of not-quite-see-through scenes I found here and there:

Glass partitions in the Goodness Gracious Eatery, by Powersurge NZ

Hammered glass photos by A Katzman

The French Window restaurant, Hong Kong

Le Complexe de la Chaise Vide – photo: Marion Berrin

The Athenaeum Hotel in London’s Mayfair, by Kinnersley Kent Design (via Yellowtrace)

Hotel next door – Photo: Heather Moore

Kitchen cupboards at Wilton Way – via Miss Moss

The Salt Cellar – Photo: Heather Moore