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The first major installation we did was for the Nestlé headquarters
in Vevey, Switzerland in 2000. It is the only known example of Italian
battuto techniques applied to heavy industrial laminated glass. The
single piece of three laminated sheets of glass,wighing one ton, required
a special glass suction holding devise and fifteen workers to move
in to place. We adapted a glass cutting machine with a flexible hose,
thus bringing the cutting to the glass rather than the glass to the
cutting.
The pattern of cuts were adapted directly from one of our vessel pieces.
The Nestlé building is now an historical national landmark
building, designed by the swiss architect Jean Tschumi in 1960, and
renovated by Ignacio Dahl Rocha and Jacques Richter in 2000.
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