10/27/2026
Let’s talk glass.
Glass provides an often cost-effective tabletop and credenza top alternative to materials such as stone, engineered stone, and even cast acrylic. Glass can also be more durable than veneer and stone to things like spills. Think water damage on veneer and chemical etching and staining on stone.
Glass in corporate furniture is typically back-painted a color to match or complement a client’s decor, low iron so it doesn’t have a green hue, and has an etched top surface. That matte top surface reduces both glare from technology, windows, and lighting, and the visibility of scratches as compared to polished glass.
As with anything, there are a couple of other factors to consider when thinking about glass. Glass is shipped from the glass fabricator to the furniture manufacturer, WallGoldfinger, protected in a crate. Choosing glass for multiple pieces of furniture on a single project – versus say one credenza top – spreads that crating and shipping cost out. In other words, plan to fill that crate up for the best value. Glass edges on a tabletop also require protection from chair arms. That might be a material like solid wood edge below and proud of the glass so chair arms hit it instead of the glass or covering the glass edge with metal. If those solid wood or metal details weren’t already part of the furniture design, they might add unexpected expenses.
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