Welcome at Van Happen Design

 

The website for furniture, body's and artificial objects in glass.

The adress from our showroom and workingplace :

 

Een glazen blad in een muur verwerkt

Van Happen Design

Industriepark Brievengat

Loods AV2

Curaçao

Telefoon

Fax

Gsm

: 005999-7371900

: 005999-7372319

: 005999-6745143

E-mail ron@vanhappendesign.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Guestbook

Do write our guestbook !

 

It should be nice if you write a message in our guestbook!

An expression giving concerning that which you find of our firma and
what your opinion is of our products.
Click on the book and leave of what you think!

 

 

 

 

 

    Glass history

 

What is Glass?

 

- A hard material made of silicates and combined with alkaliconnections and other substances.
 

Pieces of obsidian, Stone Age

 

It is brittle or transparent, and more considered as a supercooled fluid then as a body fixed in a product.

 

It cools from a melted state hard, in fromless state rather than in cristaline structure. Oxides which are melted within the glass can cause intense colours.

 

In the Stones Era the objects were cut of natural glass such as obsidian
and rock crystal.

 

Egypt, 1400-1300 b.c. (18th Dynasty), 10 x 7.2 cm, Museum Louvre, France

 

The earliest well-known manufactured glass comes from Egypt, about 2000 years B.C.. Glass was frequently produced by Roman artists, but after the fall of Rome, very little glass was in Europe there up to the tenth century to be manufactured.

 

Glassproducts from Murano

Like in the old times, the glassmakers melted their material at high temperatures in containers of the fire brick. The melted glass was then cooked, skimmed, and at different degrees cooled so that it was in form and pressure, blown or drawned. In its definite form the glass is softened and is cooled slowly to relieve tensions which have been caused by the version.
 

In the middle ages and the Renaissance the most important centre of European glaziery on the island had established Murano in venetië.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Siteplan

 

A structural overview of all pages and submissions which you find on this internet site:

 

 

>  HOMEPAGE

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     ----------------------------------- VAN HAPPEN DESIGN

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    |----------------------------------- GLASS HISTORY

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     ----------------------------------- GUESTBOOK

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     ----------------------------------- SITEPLAN

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      ---------- GRANDEUR

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    |                  -------------------- RON VAN HAPPEN

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    |                  -------------------- PERSONAL DESIGN

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    |                  -------------------- PERMANENT BEAUTY

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      ---------- FURNITURE

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    |                  -------------------- INTERIEUR

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    |                  -------------------- IMPRESSIONISM

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    |                  -------------------- DELIVERING

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      ---------- BODY'S

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    |                  -------------------- IMAGING STATUE

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    |                  -------------------- MODEL

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    |                  -------------------- PORTRAIT

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      ---------- PROJECTS

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    |                  -------------------- ACCENTUATIONS

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    |                  -------------------- STATUES

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    |                  -------------------- OBJECTS

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      ---------- APPOINTMENT

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    |                  -------------------- INSPIRATION

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    |                  -------------------- SHOWROOM

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      ---------- E-MAIL