Glass office furniture offers the consumer a wonderful opportunity to create a high tech office suite design at a very low cost. Considering that the basic structure of a large executive glass office desk is simply that of a welded or pressed steel frame with padding and a thick glass top, one can see how costs for said item might be low. However, it should be remembered that a proper thickness of glass to facilitate building a quality executive image desk may be as much as 1 inch in width. And factoring to the cost of creation that this glass positively must be made as safety glass, so that in the event of a heavy object crashing on and breaking the glass desktop, catastrophic injury will not occur. Now place into the cost equation the idea that glass is extremely heavy and in its own way to its fragility very difficult to ship.
These are the factors that make a glass desk expensive, especially when dealing with the large sized required for an executive office suite. Still glass office furniture manages to be somewhat competitive in price and offers a unique high tech look that cannot be matched with any other office furniture construction material. A similar option to the use of glass that allows for an almost identical appearance is that of Lucite. This space age material offers the translucence of glass with none of the dangers and 1/3 of the weight.