--- title: "Printed Glass Panels for Um Khalil, Amman | Sun Studio" description: "Forty-seven printed glass panels for Lebanese Um Khalil in Jabal Amman: coloured clerestory glass and photographic heritage panels, printed in Dubai." url: https://www.sunstudio.ae/portfolio/um-khalil-printed-glass-panels-amman-jordan/ type: project site: Sun Studio Dubai --- # Printed Glass Panels for Lebanese Um Khalil, Amman Lebanese Um Khalil has fed Jordan since 1977, when Antoinette Rami left the Lebanese civil war behind and started cooking in Jerash. Four decades later her family opened a second dining room in Jabal Amman. That room wanted the coloured glass of an old Levantine house above its walls, and a way to put Um Khalil herself in front of the guests. Forty-seven panels were printed in Al Quoz and sent to Amman. ![The Lebanese Um Khalil shopfront in Jabal Amman, the printed coloured glass band carrying the restaurant sign](https://www.sunstudio.ae/cases/um-khalil-glass-01.jpg) ## Project snapshot - **Client:** Lebanese Um Khalil - **Location:** Jabal Amman, Jordan - **Material:** Architectural glass - **Printing service:** Glass printing - **Panel count:** 47 - **Largest panel:** 2 m by 3 m - **Production:** Direct UV printing on glass, printed in Dubai ## The brief Traditional qamariyya windows set coloured glass into carved gypsum, which is heavy, brittle and does not travel. A panel two metres by three is a structural problem before it is a decorative one: heavy, flexible where it should not be, and vulnerable at every joint. This one had to reach Amman intact. Forty-seven panels also have to match. Colour drift across a hand-cut, hand-leaded run is part of the craft, but in a band that runs continuously around a room, where a guest can see two panels at once, it reads as a mistake. ![The printed coloured glass band running above the window wall of the Um Khalil dining room in Amman](https://www.sunstudio.ae/cases/um-khalil-glass-02.jpg) ## Our approach The pattern was printed onto single sheets rather than assembled from cut pieces and lead. The ink cures as it is laid down, so the colour keys onto the glass itself, and what arrives on site is one piece with nothing to lift at an edge and no joint to fail. A continuous band is a registration problem more than a printing one. A leading line that runs off the right edge of one panel has to arrive at the left edge of the next at the same height, the same angle and the same width. Forty-seven panels give forty-six chances for that line to step. ![An ogee-arched printed glass panel in red, green and orange above a marble window niche](https://www.sunstudio.ae/cases/um-khalil-glass-03.jpg) ![A printed glass heritage panel carrying the story of founder Antoinette Rami, standoff-fixed to limestone](https://www.sunstudio.ae/cases/um-khalil-glass-04.jpg) ## Production detail The two families of panel are read by different light. The coloured band sits above the glazing with a garden behind it, so it is seen partly by light coming through. The heritage panels sit against cream limestone and are read entirely by light bouncing off them, some of it from an uplighter a few centimetres away. The same file printed the same way would not work in both places. The portraits are the harder print of the two. Flat decorative colour forgives a great deal; a face enlarged to wall size does not, and skin that goes cold or blocks up in the shadows is obvious from across a room. ![A large printed glass portrait of Antoinette Rami, uplit and standoff-fixed to the stone wall](https://www.sunstudio.ae/cases/um-khalil-glass-05.jpg) ## The result Forty-seven panels, the largest two metres by three. A continuous band of coloured glass above the walls of one of Amman’s best-regarded Lebanese dining rooms, an arched sign over the door, and the founder’s face on the stone where guests can read her story while they wait. **47**Panels **2 x 3 m**Largest panel **Service used** - [Glass Printing](https://www.sunstudio.ae/services/glass-printing-dubai/) - [Interior & Fit-Out Printing](https://www.sunstudio.ae/services) **Read next** - [Printed Glass for Cafes, Restaurants and Retail in Dubai](https://www.sunstudio.ae/insights/uv-printing-on-glass-in-dubai-where-it-works-best/) - [Large Format Glass Printing in Dubai: A Specifier’s Guide](https://www.sunstudio.ae/insights/large-format-glass-printing-dubai/) ## Related projects - [Caffe Ferre](https://www.sunstudio.ae/portfolio/caffe-ferre-printed-glass-cafe-interior/) (Food & Beverage) - [McDonald's](https://www.sunstudio.ae/portfolio/mcdonalds-printed-glass-dubai-mall/) (Food & Beverage) - [Segafredo Zanetti](https://www.sunstudio.ae/portfolio/segafredo-zanetti-printed-glass-interiors/) (Food & Beverage) **More work** - [All projects](https://www.sunstudio.ae/portfolio) --- *This is the Markdown rendering of a page on sunstudio.ae. 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