The architectural lines and sophisticated interiors of the new headquarters and production facility of Mario Frigerio spa, designed by Ivo Pellegri, embody the excellence of an Italian company specializing in the production of drawing, rope making and mechanical extrusion systems. One of the design priorities was choice of materials, which were all required to be high performing from a energy viewpoint and functionally in general. The work areas, meeting rooms and administration offices – rational in layout and always with direct, natural light – are delimited by Unifor glass partitions (RP Partitions) with panelling made of transparent safety glass or, for spaces requiring greater privacy, Madras® Pixel (55.1 mm thick, clear). The latter’s special privacy saving texture provides a high level of light diffusion between one room and another (luminous transmission factor: 84.3%) whilst performing two functions apparently in contrast but highly useful in relational spaces: the safeguarding of confidentiality in offices and prevalently indoor-to-outdoor vision.
Madras® Pixel is the fruit of Vitrealspecchi’s experience in satin-finishing and chemical etching of flat glass, and a byword for all-Italian quality. Quality that’s common to all models in the Madras® collections in terms of style, production and also maintenance. The silky and compact texture is permanent, is not altered by use or exposure to sunlight and is more resistant to fingerprints than glass that’s apparently similar but produced by completely different processes, such as sandblasting and painting.
It is available on a monolithic float base to UNI EN 572 1-2, 2012 (temperable and laminatable) and also on float glass already laminated to UNI EN 12543: 2000.
In Europe it is supplied by a wide-reaching network of glass distributors and select glass fabricators that can be found on the producer’s website: www.vitrealspecchi.co.uk. In the USA it is distributed exclusively by McGrory Glass, Paulsboro NJ.
