FURNACE
Glassworks · hand-blown and cut glass

From firecrystal

Glass gathered from the furnace at 1250 °C, blown by breath, shaped in a beechwood mold and cooled for hours along a controlled curve. A craft passed down in glassworks from shift to shift.

01 — Furnace & batch

The glass is fined

Batch mixers prepare the batch at night and fill the pot. The glass melts overnight and is fined to working temperature. In the morning, the shift arrives.

1250 °C
melting · pot
02 — Gathering

A gather on the blowpipe

The gatherer picks up hot glass on the end of the blowpipe. A gather is formed — the core of the entire piece.

1100 °C
gathering · gatherer
03 — Blowing & shaping

Breath gives shape

The glassblower blows into the pipe, rolls the glass on the marver and shapes it in a beechwood mold. The master makes the foot and base, the assistant "gives life to the glass".

850 °C
shaping · shift
04 — Annealing

Cools into crystal

The finished piece goes into the annealing oven and cools slowly for hours along a controlled curve — otherwise it cracks from internal stress. Then cutting and engraving.

500 °C
annealing lehr · controlled curve
Shift

Behind every glass are six pairs of hands and centuries of craftsmanship.

The glassworks is a team effort at the furnace. The gatherer collects, the assistant manipulates, the master directs and does the details, the finisher completes. The molds made of beech wood are dipped and constantly renewed — the hot glass slowly burns them out. The blowpipe was invented by the Phoenicians two thousand years ago, and the gesture has hardly changed since.

We draw from the Czech glassmaking tradition — Moser, Rückl, Bohemia. Each piece is an original: handwork means that no two glasses are exactly the same. That is not a flaw, that is a signature.

1250 °Cmelting of glass
2.5—12 hcontrolled cooling
6pairs of hands per piece
Glass

What comes into being with us

Drinkware

Goblets, carafes, decanters — sets for wine, whiskey, and champagne.

Decor & Vases

Vases, bowls, paperweights, sculptures, candlesticks — colored and cut.

Custom Order

Corporate gifts, awards and trophies, limited collections, engraved monogram, gilding.

Glassworks Experience

Factory tour and "blow your own glass" under the master's supervision.

Cutting & Engraving

Cold finishing, engraving, etching, gilding, matting.

Restoration & Assembly

Replacement of missing service pieces, grinding of scratched edges.

Custom Order

Would you like goblets, a vase, a custom trophy, or to visit the glassworks? Write us.

Ondřej Pirohanič
[email protected]
+420 776 508 777
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