The artistic production of glass and mirror CAVALLARI is founded in 1994.
Today a production has modern laboratories which allow to execute different works with glass and mirror.
In obedience to international norms, articles of home furniture, frameless doors, and shower-baths must be executed by tempered glasses.
The newest equipment, deep study and consolidated experience, allow to offer the wide assortment of absolutely transparent glass.
A production will realize details and furniture for glass and mirror wares, such as: office tables, shelves, panel partitions, stained-glass windows, shells and toilet rooms. Specialists work in a close collaboration with designers, you can order individual works for registration of interior of apartments, offices, out-of-town houses, trading floors…
Exclusive artistic, decorative, lacquered, figured treatment cast (glass fusing), engraved, hard-tempered glass can satisfy any requirements.

Wares from glass are Executed only by hand.
A leading role in realization is played by talent of artists and long-term experience of performers.
With their help we will describe you step by step a few the most used methods and technologies.

COLD DECORATION
The cold decoration of glass, with enamels that can be fixed to a temp. max. of 100°C, it is a delicate technique. It has an advantage of wide chromatic range, lively and rich of nuances, but it is sensitive to the atmospheric agents and the abrasion of the more common dissolvents (alcool, detergents etc). In order to obviate to this limit, our cold decorated glass walls are sealed in heat-proof glass-room, with the colors that remain protect inside. The cold colors are perfect to be used in the decoration of the mirrors previously sandblasted in the back. The color comes absorbed from the rough surface of the sandblasted part and in the same time protect from the external effects with the surface of the mirror that remains intact. The technique of cold decoration can be used also for paint of the washbasins. In this case the glass plate is undergone to more heat treatments. For ceramic enamels the sand-blasting is not necessary.

FIRE PAINTING
The glass painting is very different from the painting on burlap or another type of surface.
The fire painting uses ceramic enamels with appropriate oils. Once realized the design, the glass is put into the furnace to 820°C, but after the vitrification, it changes the aspect and the definition of the design.
Like in all the artistic applications more complex, the fundamental factors in order to obtain turned out bonds are the continuous study of the technique and the experience of our masters.
The articles realized by the fire painting are resistant to the light and maintain their brilliance in the time.
The works of art created by this technique show up the design in luminous places or in little illuminated atmospheres, like sacred churches or other places, in more are tempered and indelibled.

SAND-BLASTING
A sharp blasting grit (corundum or silicon carbide) is directed to the surface of glass sheet.
Where the gift hits, the surface is destroyed and becomes frosted.
The general opinion that sandblasting can only be used for simple designs is far off the mark.
The possibilities for creativity are nearly limitless and range from individually light frosting through surface matting to deep carving in many levels.

ENAMELLING
The technique of warm enamelling is come true with the use of colored ceramic pigments.
Once deposited on the slab, the glass comes put in furnace to 560° C so the glass remains smooth and transparent, with the colors in relief on the surface, while with the fire painting carried out to 820°C the slab until taking to the "movement" (the texture) of the support plan of the furnace.
The glasses decorated by this technique are tempered and the colors remain indelibled.

STRATIFICATION
The laminated glasses are constituted, from two ore more sheet of glass Float or extra luminosity.
The sheets can have the same or various thicknesses.
They are overlapped and joined with one thin resin layer.
The laminated glasses have anti accident anti intrusion a function (for doors of income, display windows etc) and anti intrusion because in breach case, the fragments remain attacked to the resin and so the wounding of the persons can be avoided.

TEMPERED GLASS
In the production of flat glass the molten silica-based mix is cooled slowly under carefully controlled conditions. This annealing procedure removes undesirable stresses from the glass.
The heat treating process produces highly desirable conditions of induced stress which result in additional strength, resistance to thermal stress, and impact resistance. Under wind pressure, tempered glass is four times stronger and it is also able to resist temperature differences (200 ° F - 300 ° F).
Tempered glass is used in many applications because of its safety characteristics. Safety comes from strength and from a unique fracture pattern. Strength, which effectively resists wind pressure and impact, provides safety in many applications.
When tempered glass breaks the glass fractures into small, relatively harmless fragments. This phenomenon called "dicing", markedly reduces the likelihood of injury to people as there are no jagged edges or sharp shards.

GLASS MELTING
Glassfusing, also called laminated, it is a particular thermic process which consist in bringing a sheet of glass, put on a refractory plate inside a special kiln, gradually to fusion temperature ( about 800°C ), to bring it slowly back to room temperature. The kinds of glass used, Bullseye, Desag, Spectrum…, are valuable ones sold in sheets and especially studied for this kind of working process.
It is possible to put enamels, oxides, coloured powdered glass, Thin metal foils or wires, to obtain special effects in fusion. Glass in different colours can be used together. Stringers, crushed glass and glass powder are used for the design. The finished result is a thick glass plate.