A 6,000 Sq. Ft. Stained Glass Ceiling?
Sunset Station Hotel & Casino’s Gaudi Bar Stained Glass Ceiling
While you are in Las Vegas for the 2007 Glass Craft & Bead Expo be sure to check out the Sunset Station Hotel & Casino’s Gaudi Bar. The Gaudi Bar has been called an homage to the eccentric vision of Barcelona architect Antonio Gaudí.
The main reason I plan to visit the Sunset Station Gaudi Bar is the 6,000 sq. ft. stained glass ceiling. Can you believe it?
The spotlight attraction of the Gaudi Bar is the 6,000 square foot stained glass ceiling that encompasses the 140-seat bar. The ceiling, which contains thousands of pieces of stained glass in a free-form mosaic and has absolutely no straight lines or right angles, is one of the largest stained glass ceilings in the U.S. Designed by Scott Avjian of Morris & Brown and Sue Grauten of Savoy Studios, the Gaudi Bar’s amoeba-shaped ceiling is the centerpiece attraction for the casino.
The abrasive waterjet-cutting machine used to cut all of those thousands of pieces of glass was manufactured by Flow International Corporation, Kent, Washington. To see the full text of this article describing the work involved along with more photos go to the Flow Corp website.
Could this be the future of glass cutting technology for the stained glass hobbyist?
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