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Title: Milan Metelak drinking glasses?
Post by: glassobsessed on August 09, 2011, 10:39:44 AM

I bought these glasses recently just because I thought the design was so good. While poking around and trying to research a Milan Metelak vase I was selling I bumped into this page which has these glasses attributed to Metelak, scroll two thirds of the way down the page: http://www.detesk.cz/en/virtual-museum/author-objects/

So were they made at Harrachov, can anyone confirm the attribution?

John

Title: Re: Milan Metelak drinking glasses?
Post by: bOBA on August 09, 2011, 11:19:05 AM

Hi John,
I researched some early CGRs the other day. Although the glasses were produced for a long time. From my archive, it seems they appeared in an advert in Vol III, 1948, No1, with a decanter too, as part of the the "Harrachov special liqueur suite 2046...." They probably appear in later CGRs too. I cannot help with the designer though, Metalek seems very possible,


Robert (bOBA)

Title: Re: Milan Metelak drinking glasses?
Post by: glassobsessed on August 09, 2011, 01:55:51 PM

Wow, available in 1948? They seem so 'modern', perhaps I should not be surprised, this is not the first time I have been decades out estimating when a design may date from.

That is fantastic Robert, definitely Harrachov is great news, thank you.

 ;D

John

Title: Re: Milan Metelak drinking glasses?
Post by: bOBA on August 09, 2011, 02:42:33 PM

Definitely Harrachov. Certainly produced for decades as they were a classic design. I am also fairly sure of the CGR I saw it in, I was only studying and photographing pre-1954 CGRs and the way I stored the images suggests the 1948 issue I describe. I also found the small Liskova vase I posted earlier in the year here, in a 1950 CGR, that, like your glasses, seems also a very early date for "modern design" that I would associate as a gut feel as 1950's design at the earliest....


Robert (bOBA)    

Title: Re: Milan Metelak drinking glasses?
Post by: glassobsessed on August 10, 2011, 09:42:37 PM

Beautiful.

We should not be that surprised at the dates really, just think of what Bauhaus were doing twenty or thirty years earlier.

john

Title: Re: Milan Metelak drinking glasses?
Post by: Frank on August 11, 2011, 11:50:04 PM

Great glasses but...

Quote from: glassobsessed on August 09, 2011, 10:39:44 AM

http://www.detesk.cz/en/virtual-museum/author-objects/

... thanks for that link, fascinating site. I want one of their stills! Hopefully someone will help them out with their English!

Will post link elsewhere.

Title: Re: Milan Metelak drinking glasses?
Post by: glassobsessed on August 12, 2011, 08:11:19 AM

A little eau de vie Frank?

Sounds very :fr:

John

Title: Re: Milan Metelak drinking glasses?
Post by: glassobsessed on March 15, 2021, 06:30:13 PM

Still available: http://en.sklarnaharrachov.cz/glassworks/glass-products/12046


Along with a beer spa... the mind boggles.