Glass and Crystal | Czech Glass in Prague

Swarovski Crystal Headquarters is located in Austria, but Daniel Swarovski, founder of the company and inventor of the revolutionary glass-cutting machine in 1892 that made Swarovski a luxury goods empire, was actually from northern Bohemia. Having started the company in 1895, Daniel Swarovski then established a crystal-cutting factory in Tyrol, in order to take advantage of the hydroelectricity he was not getting in northern Bohemia. Swarovski specializes in jewelry, accessories, crystal sculptures, stemware, chandeliers, and home décor. The city of Prague features two Swarovski stores, both ...

ARTĚL absolutely fills a niche in the luxury crystal market not only in Prague but also throughout the world as their work is carried in stores ranging from Bergdorf Goodman in New York to Christian Dior in Paris. ARTĚL focuses on mouth-blown hand-decorated crystal for the table and home, and while certainly decorative, all pieces are first and foremost intended to be functional. ARTĚL’s claim to fame is that they create the drink sets for the Rolls-Royce Phantom, as well making a fierce faceted vase especially for Gucci. In addition to their crystal collection, the shops carry ...

Moser Glass sets the standard for high quality glass world round. The company is based in Karlovy Vary, but the city of Prague features two lovely Moser stores, both located in the Old Town, one on Old Town Square, and one on the main shopping artery of Na Prikope. The company was established in 1857 in the then Austro-Hungarian town of Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) by Ludwig Moser, a Jewish German-Bohemian. After two World Wars and Communism the company is stronger than ever and has the reputation to prove it, as Moser Glass is known worldwide as the glass of Kings. The company specializes in ...

Located on the ground floor of the superior Cubist House at the Black Madonna in the center of Prague is the Kubista design shop. This shop is not only wonderful in the fact that it is located in one of the most famous Cubist structures in the world, but also because the shop offers unique Czech Cubist and Art Deco meticulously restored originals and replicas of furniture, décor, ceramics, and jewelry. Kubista was opened in 2002 and has quickly become popular with local and international clients alike. What better place to purchase a souvenir than at Kubista? After browsing around and ...

For over 16 years, Modernista has been a synonym for avant-garde Czech design and applied arts. The company was founded in 1999, originally as an online store with restored original furniture pieces from the 1930's. The company soon gained an excellent reputation and is now regularly featured in Czech and international design and housing magazines. The selection offered in the Modernista design shop is varied and wide with Czech Cubist ceramics (reproductions from their Cubist Collection), Modernist furniture, design lighting, jewelry, china, and glass, contemporary design and design books. ...

Founded in 2002 by Jakub Berdych and Maxim Velcovsky, Qubus is a studio and design shop. The purpose in establishing the Qubus design studio was to offer a non-standard studio and shop that presents mainly the best of the best contemporary Czech and conceptual design to the public in the Czech Republic and abroad. Nowadays the award-winning Qubus design studio also focuses on interior architecture and graphic design. This whimsical place located in Old Town is a great place to find cool unique gifts for that unconventional person in your life, gifts such as a semi-creepy porcelain baby head ca ...

In the historic Ungelt Courtyard located behind the imposing Gothic beauty of Tyn Church is Material, a glass design shop that sells gorgeous handmade glass in an equally beautiful setting. The shop is quite large and is situated in a Renaissance building that has been lovingly renovated with the esthetics of beauty in mind. The space showcases dark gray walls and vaulted ceilings with gorgeous wooden shelves that display the splendid design glass. Upon entering you will notice the front glass door that features a glass vase; as you walk through you will witness large classic chandeliers and ...

Swarovski Crystal Headquarters is located in Austria, but Daniel Swarovski, founder of the company and inventor of the revolutionary glass-cutting machine in 1892 that made Swarovski a luxury goods empire, was actually from northern Bohemia. Having started the company in 1895, Daniel Swarovski then established a crystal-cutting factory in Tyrol, in order to take advantage of the hydroelectricity he was not getting in northern Bohemia. Swarovski specializes in jewelry, accessories, crystal sculptures, stemware, chandeliers, and home décor. The city of Prague features two Swarovski stores, both ...

ARTĚL absolutely fills a niche in the luxury crystal market not only in Prague but also throughout the world as their work is carried in stores ranging from Bergdorf Goodman in New York to Christian Dior in Paris. ARTĚL focuses on mouth-blown hand-decorated crystal for the table and home, and while certainly decorative, all pieces are first and foremost intended to be functional. ARTĚL’s claim to fame is that they create the drink sets for the Rolls-Royce Phantom, as well making a fierce faceted vase especially for Gucci. In addition to their crystal collection, the shops carry ...

Moser Glass sets the standard for high quality glass world round. The company is based in Karlovy Vary, but the city of Prague features two lovely Moser stores, both located in the Old Town, one on Old Town Square, and one on the main shopping artery of Na Prikope. The company was established in 1857 in the then Austro-Hungarian town of Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) by Ludwig Moser, a Jewish German-Bohemian. After two World Wars and Communism the company is stronger than ever and has the reputation to prove it, as Moser Glass is known worldwide as the glass of Kings. The company specializes in ...

Located on the ground floor of the superior Cubist House at the Black Madonna in the center of Prague is the Kubista design shop. This shop is not only wonderful in the fact that it is located in one of the most famous Cubist structures in the world, but also because the shop offers unique Czech Cubist and Art Deco meticulously restored originals and replicas of furniture, décor, ceramics, and jewelry. Kubista was opened in 2002 and has quickly become popular with local and international clients alike. What better place to purchase a souvenir than at Kubista? After browsing around and ...

For over 16 years, Modernista has been a synonym for avant-garde Czech design and applied arts. The company was founded in 1999, originally as an online store with restored original furniture pieces from the 1930's. The company soon gained an excellent reputation and is now regularly featured in Czech and international design and housing magazines. The selection offered in the Modernista design shop is varied and wide with Czech Cubist ceramics (reproductions from their Cubist Collection), Modernist furniture, design lighting, jewelry, china, and glass, contemporary design and design books. ...

Founded in 2002 by Jakub Berdych and Maxim Velcovsky, Qubus is a studio and design shop. The purpose in establishing the Qubus design studio was to offer a non-standard studio and shop that presents mainly the best of the best contemporary Czech and conceptual design to the public in the Czech Republic and abroad. Nowadays the award-winning Qubus design studio also focuses on interior architecture and graphic design. This whimsical place located in Old Town is a great place to find cool unique gifts for that unconventional person in your life, gifts such as a semi-creepy porcelain baby head ca ...

In the historic Ungelt Courtyard located behind the imposing Gothic beauty of Tyn Church is Material, a glass design shop that sells gorgeous handmade glass in an equally beautiful setting. The shop is quite large and is situated in a Renaissance building that has been lovingly renovated with the esthetics of beauty in mind. The space showcases dark gray walls and vaulted ceilings with gorgeous wooden shelves that display the splendid design glass. Upon entering you will notice the front glass door that features a glass vase; as you walk through you will witness large classic chandeliers and ...

The Prague studio Olgoj Chorchoj is known for its innovative design that has been presented with many awards and whose designers have gained acknowledgment not only among experts and the general public in the Czech Republic, but also outside of the country. From the very beginning the work of the architectural-designer studio that was founded in 1990 during the Vitra Design Museum workshop comprised a wide range of projects. Besides architectural projects Olgoj Chorchoj created, for example, porcelain sets, titanium jewelry and glass vases. Olgoj Chorchoj cooperated or is cooperating with many ...

Founded in 1990 the Pelcl Studio is a foremost design studio in the Czech Republic. Many years of experience for the main personality of the studio, professor and architect Jiří Pelcl, as well as implemented projects of other members MgA. Petr Mikošek and MgA. David Crla ensures the certainty of high-quality products and upmost satisfaction for clients. The Pelcl Studio deals with furniture, glass and porcelain design, residential and commercial interior design and architectural projects. Besides his own work for the Pelcl Studio Jiří Pelcl works as a lecturer at the Academy of Art, Architec ...

Rony Plesl is one of the best and most famous Czech product designers. This designer and sculptor is known mainly in the field of glass design and for his original glass and stone sculptures. He is also involved with interior design and drawing. Rony Plesl graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague where he has been working as the head of the Glass Studio since 2008. In 2002 he founded the Rony Plesl, s.r.o. brand and three years later the Rony Plesl Studio. His contemporary work focuses on uranium glass whose production has been preserved only in a few glassworks in ...

Founded in 1967 as a consortium of Bohemia glass companies in the Českomoravská Vysočina area, Crystalite Bohemia Glassworks is sold all over the world and enjoys well-deserved brand success due to the high quality of the glass products designed and produced at the factory. Glass production in this area dates back to the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries and it is clear from the quality and quantity of glassware made in this area that it is the tried and true formulas and fine craftsmanship which are responsible for making this Bohemian product famous and beloved worldwide. In 2009 the ...

Blacksmith and glassblower Rudolf Burda from Mladá Boleslav specializes in modern artistic blacksmithing and free creation while using steel, stainless steel, hand-blown and cast glass and enamel. He inherited his relationship to handicraft work from his ancestors – his grandfather and father were upholsterers and they also had a blacksmith in the family. Since 1991, Rudolf Burda has specialized in combining metal and hand-blown and cast glass. He prefers pure forms and minimalist glass design with gloss and matte finishes in mutual contrast. Burda places emphasis on every detail and ...

Located in the Dox Center for Contemporary Art in Holesovice is Dox by Qubus, a unique design boutique in the city of Prague. The Qubus design studio was created in 2002 by Jakub Berdych and Maxim Velcovsky who decided to establish a multidisciplinary stage for exploring, experimenting and implementing new designs with porcelain and glass, which are traditional Czech materials. Dox by Qubus opened in 2008 and offers their unique blend of modern Czech tradition in porcelain and glass vases, bowls, candleholders, animal banks, etc. At Dox by Qubus you can also find glassware, porcelain, lighting ...

The young Czech designer Zuzana Kynčlová deals mainly with the design of glass objects for interiors which border on applied art, and fine arts and glass jewelry in combination with other materials. She mainly uses the technique of mold-melted and cut glass or metallurgical glass which she decorates with animal motifs created with a glass powder. Zuzana focuses on the shape, color, scale and proportions of her objects, which excel in purity and simplicity. Her original jewelry designs include necklaces and bracelets made of Rocaille beads uniquely combined with metal, and cut-glass rings from ...

Under the BOMMA brand Bohemia Machine from Světlá nad Sázavou manufactures luxury crystal products in a modern style designed by foremost Czech and foreign glass designers. For the production of crystal glass it uses its own state-of-the-art production facilities in combination with handwork. Its exclusive crystal products are made from completely pure molten glass, precisely cut, treated and polished, so that a diamond-like sparkle is achieved. Designers who participate on designing BOMMA tableware and gift crystal glass are, for example, Rony Plesl, Olgoj Chorchoj, prof. Jiří Pelcl, Karen Le ...

Founded in 2015 and located in the beautiful center of Prague, the Glassimo Gallery is a design boutique offering premium, high quality glass and porcelain. The beautiful decorative objects are created by the best Czech glassmakers, designers and artists. Many of the works on display in Glassimo are unique objects – why not invest in a one-of-a-kind piece of art glass by renowned Czech master glassmakers such as Bořek Šípek, Jiří Pačinek and Kateřina Smolíková, design porcelain by Daniel Piršč, or products of BOMMA, one of the most modern European producers of drinking glassware? It is ...

The Rückl family glassworks goes back to 1846 – at that time the renowned family was settled in Cyranůw Wostrow (today’s Ostrava). A lot has changed since then, however, the quality of the cut crystal remains the same, along with the brand logo: a stork with a glass-flask lid in its beak. In 1903, a small family glasswork was established in Nižbor. Over the course of one century, the brand has overcome war and the uneasy period of Communism. Thanks to this, we can let ourselves be charmed by their wonderful works of art, which are admired around the world. The uniqueness of the ...

Founded by designer Radua Kaňáková Zneikahová, Radua Crystal offers an array of dreamy led-free crystal glass items including hand blown bowls, candy dishes, stemware, vases, candles, and more. Radua first came into contact with the craft of glassmaking during her childhood when she would watch her mother hard at work in the family’s glass workshop. Her mother’s love for handmade glass has surely transferred to Radua, who as she puts it, “succumbed to the same magic as she did.” The rest is glass history and we are truly happy for it. These sparkling creations are dow ...