Vitrolite
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Description
A brand name for laminated glass panels. Vitrolite panels had a sheet of clear glass bonded to a sheet of opaque, colored glass. They were commonly used from 1900-1940 (Bucher 1996). Vitrolite panels were used as wall veneers, marquees and spandrels.
Additional Information
° Carol Dyson, "Structural Glass", in Twentieth-Century Building Materials, T. Jester (ed.), McGraw-Hill: New York, 1995. ° "The Preservation of Historic Pigmented Structural Glass (Vitrolite and Carrara Glass)", Preservation Brief 12, National Park Service. Link