About W&D
A house of glass.
From leaded windows to architectural skin.
Taizhou, 2003.
We started in a workshop in Taizhou, leading windows for churches and old houses. We were three people. We learned by leading.
Twenty-two years on, the workshop is two factories and three hundred and fifty pairs of hands. The work is the same. We still draw the cartoon. We still cut the glass. We still ship a panel because someone in another country wanted a wall to be remembered.
The floor, and where the work went.
Two factories in Taizhou. A third under construction in Vietnam. Cutting tables, kilns, lead lines, crates — and the buildings the panels went into. Photographed by the team.
The factory gate, Taizhou. Head office, Taizhou. The loading yard. CNC cutting line. Sheet-glass processing line. Edging and washing line. Cutting table. Curved architectural panels on the floor. Cutting amber glass to the cartoon. Setting tesserae by hand on the cartoon. A portrait in mosaic — cutting to the stroke. Inspecting a finished panel before crating. A panel held to the light for inspection. Finished panels racked outdoors for inspection. Panels awaiting shipment. Checking a sheet-glass partition at full size. Walking a client through the framed panels. Glass mosaic in a blue-and-gold diamond grid. Stained-glass windows in situ — a residential hall. Huawei Bantian E1 — the stained-glass ceiling going up. Huawei Bantian E1 ceiling — on site, Shenzhen. Installing the curved panels on site. The second factory. Factory hall, exterior. The approach to the second factory. Project review in the Taizhou office. Reviewing shop drawings.
Twenty-two years, in ten moments.
- 2003Founded in Taizhou.A small workshop of stained-glass craftsmen.
- 2011First exports.Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Russia.
- 2012Across continents.Work delivered to the United States, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, France, the UAE.
- 2014Lebanon, India.Footprint deepens in the Middle East and South Asia.
- 2018Every continent.Vietnam, Israel, Sri Lanka, Hungary, Indonesia, Egypt added to the working list.
- 2020Shijiazhuang Metro.A public-art mosaic program for one of China's busiest transit hubs.
- 2021Xuzhou Metro.A second metro commission, delivered.
- 2025Shanghai Jianfa Haiyue. Vietnam factory.Lobby installation completed. Second-source manufacturing begins in Vietnam.
- 2026JFK Terminal 1.Architectural artwork in fabrication for the new terminal. New York.
- 2027Huawei Bantian E1.Architectural glass program in progress. Shenzhen.
Where the work lives.
- Huawei Bantian E1Shenzhen, China2027
- JFK Terminal 1New York, USA2026
- Jianfa HaiyueShanghai, China2025
- Shijiazhuang MetroShijiazhuang, China2020
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Factories — 2 China, 1 Vietnam
20,000+ M²
Production space
600+
Clients on every major continent
350+
Team members worldwide