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As Goddard & Gibbs were not operating it was only possible to get a feel for the way the
studio would have worked. The studio was in rented industrial premises which were large
and allowed each section separate areas. The only machinery appeared to be the screen
printers and vacuum frames for the production of the stencilled screens.
There were also two large kilns. The studio made use of computers for designing and design
presentation although there weren’t any large format printers or plotters in view.
Derix is the worlds largest architectural glass studio. They operate from premises that have
grown over time to three stories with multiple rooms. There are cutting and assembling rooms,
a kiln and sand blasting area, an acid room, two spray painting rooms, a paint studio, a packing
room, a large layout area, plan drawing and computing rooms, a gallery and administration
rooms. There were only two hand edging machines, a large sand blasting cabinet and four
kilns. All the glass cutting was done using the European method of cutting around hand cut
cardboard patterns. Screen printing was done elsewhere as was any job involving large, heavy
pieces of glass.