Modern and Contemporary Stained Glass
Innovative Design for Minimalist Spaces
Modern and contemporary stained glass windows stand out for their refined and innovative style, defined by clean geometries and abstract patterns. This approach prioritises experimentation and originality, moving away from traditional styles to embrace fresh, creative design solutions.
Glass, with its interplay of transparency and opacity, is used to create visual effects that range from subtle and understated to bold and striking. The textures of the glass are pivotal, adding depth and personality to each composition.
In modern interiors, stained glass becomes a key feature, serving as a focal point within minimalist décor, where neutral tones like black and white often prevail.
How and Where to Use Modern and contemporary Stained Glass
Beyond traditional applications in windows, doors, or partitions, modern and contemporary stained glass can be used to create stunning backlit wall panels or false ceilings. For example, we crafted bespoke backlit ceilings with LED lighting for a beauty salon in Rome, combining functionality with artistic flair.
The choice of glass
While the classical style with figurative, floral or ornamental subjects often required large areas of detailed painted glass, with the modern style paint is less predominant, sometimes it is reduced to a wash on the glass, often doesn’t even exist.
Therefore, the choice of glass, the color, but above all the textures become very important for modern and contemporary stained glass.
- Mouth blown glass, a transparent almost crystalline glass with the characteristic presence of small bubbles and streaks created during blowing. You can see some examples from the French company Saint Gobain
- Textured glass, it is an industrial glass that can have different textures or patterns, the most common called cathedral glass has a more or less strong satin effect.
- Opalescent glass has a marbled effect and is generally semi or completely opaque.
Modern Stained glass window with Nature
Examples of modern and contemporary stained glass, when the choice of glass is essential.
Door with colorless glass – Tuscany
For a client in Tuscany, we created a door with a modern design, composed exclusively of colorless glass with different textures. The variety of surfaces creates a refined game of light and transparency, giving the environment elegance and simplicity.
Sliding window with artistic glass – Holland
Another example is a sliding window designed for a client in Holland. In this case, we combined blown glass, antique printed glass and opalescent glass in shades of black and white. This choice gave life to a harmonious visual patchwork of light, shadow, color and transparency.
Glass Painting in Modern and Contemporary Stained Glass
In modern and contemporary stained glass, glass painting is distinguished by a less realistic style and more oriented towards abstraction and innovation. Grisaille, the traditional pigment used for stained glass, often takes on a different role: It is used to create transparency and opaque effects achieved with paint washes, which involve the application of colour over the entire surface of the glass in a uniform or modulated way.
In this context, painting becomes an experimental tool, used to obtain unique visual effects and innovative textures that integrate with the natural ones of the glass itself.
How to commission a stained glass window from IKO Studio
IKO Studio creates custom stained glass windows for doors, windows, furniture and lighting solutions.
How to proceed
Contact us:
You can contact us by email or phone to discuss your ideas and specific project needs.
Personalized consultation:
If you are nearby, we can arrange a face-to-face meeting to analyze the context and define the details of the project. We operate in this way mainly in Rome, Arezzo, Siena and Florence.
If you are further away, we can manage communication conveniently via email or WhatsApp.
Updates during the process:
During the creative process, we will keep you updated regularly with images that document the progress of the work, to ensure full transparency and involvement.
Delivery and shipping:
Once completed, the stained glass window will be photographed in our studio, packaged with the utmost care and delivered personally or shipped safely anywhere in the world.
With IKO Studio, the creation of your modern and contemporary stained glass windows will be a simple and personalized experience, with unique results that will not disappoint your expectations.
