Not your standard old glass brick which came in in the 1940s though if you aren’t looking closely walking through your old business district these will look like a grungy glass brick transom up over the display windows of old shops. But it is not glass brick but rather is from 50 years before. These are square glass tiles that have horizontal prisms on the back, which redirected sunlight from windows where it was plentiful back deep into rooms where light was scarce, reducing the need for artificial lighting and light wells. You could daylight the basement below, too, where the stock was kept.
This post is a collaboration between myself and my Chicago Illinois based architect friend Howard Mock who has a side interest with his partner in Arkansas procuring domestic and imported antique stained glass of all styles concentrated on Prairie and Chicago School patterns and designs, including these Luxfer Prismatic Glass tiles. He can be reached on Linked In here https://www.linkedin.com/in/howard-mock-582a1031/ or on Facebook at Howard P. Mock. Thank you!
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
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