NUMAEX Journal

Glass, Light &
Craft

Design essays, project spotlights, and stories from 93 years of architectural glass craftsmanship.

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Fluted Glass in India: Partitions, Shower Enclosures and Doors

Design Essay

18 May 2026

Fluted Glass in India: Partitions, Shower Enclosures and Doors

Fluted, reeded or ribbed: the same glass, specified correctly. Formats, thicknesses, what drives the cost, and where it belongs in a shower enclosure, a partition or a door. From NUMAEX, Ahmedabad, since 1933.

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Design Essay

11 April 2026

The Art of Transparency

Contemporary architects are rethinking the role of glass, not as barrier or boundary, but as the primary material of experience.

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Telescopic or synchro: try the opening before you draw it

Design Essay

18 September 2026

Telescopic or synchro: try the opening before you draw it

Both systems move several glass panels across one opening. One stacks to a side, the other splits from the centre. Set your opening width, choose a configuration and see what is left clear, what each panel weighs, and how it is driven.

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Specifying Paloma, one decision at a time

Design Essay

18 September 2026

Specifying Paloma, one decision at a time

A shower enclosure has one job: keep the wet side wet and the dry side dry. Eight decisions get it right. Make them here, in order, with the rules our surveyors use.

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Design Essay

18 September 2026

Cloth held in glass

Fabric laminated glass: real textile sealed between two panes. Why a room wants to be seen through and not into, which weaves do what, and how far a custom cloth can go.

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Design Essay

18 September 2026

Light you can read by

What an illuminated mirror is actually for, why most bathroom light is in the wrong place, and how NUMA is built. With controls you can try.

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Design Essay

12 May 2026

The Door You Can't Open

Floor-to-ceiling doors photograph beautifully and weigh 140 kilograms. On the system that lets an 81-year-old open her own front door.

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Design Essay

22 April 2026

The Floor You Can See Through

On glass staircases — what they demand of a building, and what they give back. A material study in structure, light, and the half-second of hesitation before you trust the tread.

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