Glaces triplex / illustrations, Tournois-Doumenq
A 1912 Paris catalogue of laminated Triplex safety glass, issued by the Société du Verre Triplex and printed by Julien Frazier, presenting the company's glass to trade and exhibition audiences. Its pictures show glass panels cracked and shattered by impacts, arranged as test specimens against plain wooden frames, with one advertising image of a woman beside a shop window. A designer could take the radiating fracture patterns as a graphic motif and the sober test-board photographs as a model for technical documentation.
