an absolutely new, pathbreaking aesthetics to the art of oenology. The sommelier world champion of 2004, Enrico Bernardo, and the London designer Michael Anastassiades have developed together this series for the Paris luxury house. They accomplished that with these goblets every detail is balanced. The unconventional glasses without stems rest with their conical ground in a silvered or - with champagne and digestiv - gilted stand. The massive metal holds the hand-blown glass secure and tempers the drink. The combination of thin and resistant crystal with the heavy metal foot continues the tradition in innovations of the board and drinking culture of Puiforcat.
additional parts .
in Paris in 1820 by Emile Puiforcat and his two cousins, owes most of its renown to Jean Puiforcat, from the fourth generation of the family, who was to write the most beautiful pages of its history almost a century later, and would establish the company in the avant-garde of modern silverwork.
Puiforcat, the company began evolving towards the high-end of the silversmith’s trade in the late nineteenth century, recreating eighteenth-century masterpieces from his collection that are now exhibited at the Louvre museum in Paris. His son Jean was named a master silversmith in 1920.
...