In St. Petersburg during the restoration of the house No. 5 at Baskov lane on the facade was discovered glass bricks system Falcone, the press-service of city Committee on protection and use of monuments.
House No. 5 at Baskov lane is known to historians as an apartment house of the owner of a banking offices of Alex Eroshenko. The art Nouveau building was built in 1903 by architect Theodore von Postels.
This building is included in the list of apartment facilities by challenging the city’s facades. Now the house is of historical and cultural examination. Professionals interested in narrow Windows in the attic a long time researchers were convinced that the Windows are stained glass. But during the examination it became clear: the openings were closed the real glass bricks, as they were called glass.
the Fashion for glass came to St. Petersburg and Moscow in the late nineteenth century. Glass bricks had to shut the Windows black stairs, firewalls. The blocks were made of different colors, which allow to achieve an interesting decorative effect. It is known that the glass bricks installed in the apartment house Eroshenko, was manufactured at the plant “M. Frank and K°”. After the end of the modern era, the secret to creating such items have been lost.
But as they say in the Committee, technology is gradually restored and the St. Petersburg masters have learned how to make glass bricks that correspond to old samples.
the following year, apartment house Eroshenko waiting for large-scale restoration. Glass bricks carefully dismantled, restored and then re-lay them narrow little window in the attic. Lost bricks recreate the forces of modern masters. In the Committee note that it will be the city’s first case of restoration of glass bricks.
