CRYSTAL GLAMOUR - MANUFACTURER OF BOHEMIA CRYSTAL AND GLASS
is a glassworks producing handmade BOHEMIA CRYSTAL with 24% (PbO).
Handmade deluxe crystal products of Crystal Glamour are blown by traditional methods. Unique individuality and beauty of the glass products arise from skills of craftsmen passed over several generations. High quality and elegance of our products have been acknowledged by many customers all around the world.
Main part of our production are bigger and small series of these crystal and glass product categories:
- - Traditional cut Bohemian Crystal
- - Gilded (Gold) Bohemia Crystal
- - Lamps and chandelier parts
- - Aromatic oil lamps
- - Promotional paperweights with colors and sand blasting logos
- - Commission undertaken
- - Coffee grinders and sea salt and peppers mills
- - Perfume bottles
- - Water pipes (Hookah)
- - Blank products for cutting workshop
We can export our goods - bohemia glass and bohemia crystal - over the world.
ABOUT US
Glass factory CRYSTAL GLAMOUR, a.s was established in 1991 in Okrouhlice near Světlá nad Sázavou in Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, in lands tightly connected with glass production reaching back to 14th century. The main reason for generous establishments of glass works was large source of wood. Concurrently with glass-blowing, the refinement of the glass was also evolving. Thanks to brithish influnce of the lead crystal there were already founded glass-cutting shops in the 18th century. One of the famous one was settled in Karlov. They were realizing deep cuts creating optic effects in thick-walled Czech glass. Later director was Karel Bacik, who emigrated to Scotland and there he was one of the three founders and also a director of Watterford Crystal.
Glass factory CRYSTAL GLAMOUR, a.s. keeps the traditional production 24% lead crystal, designated for hand cutting. Since 2010 CRYSTAL GLAMOUR, a.s. is the only glass made producer of this kind in Havlíčkův Brod region.
The meltage in modern whole-electric two-pans glass furnace dates to 1994. The founders of the business and the glass-works are businessman Jaroslav Noha and glass master of handcraft Zdeněk Koťara, who gained years of expiriences in glass-works of Czech and Moravian highlands - in Josefodol (today Caesar Crystal Bohemiae), in Dobronín, in Antonínův Důl and also in austrian glass factory in Alt Nagelberg town. He started out in Okrouhlice together with other glass masters Leopold Dejmal, Karel Bačkovský, Zdeněk Bachura and Pavel Zelenka. They all learned the glass craft at the glass school in Světlá nad Sázavou and gradually gained experinece in czech, german and austrian glass factories. The company's name was Glass-Rubs s.r.o. until 2006 and after the investment from Pavel Satoránský in 2007, the glass factory became company stock under the name CRYSTAL GLAMOUR.
The range of goods includes wide variety of clear bohemia crystal and coloured crystal glass products with modern or clasic Bohemia Crystal cut decors, gold or paltinum with high smalt and sandblasted or golden decorations called "oroplastic".
CRYSTAL GLAMOUR specializes in manufacturing stemware sets. In Bohemian-Moravian Highlands it continues in tradition hand production which was of interest of another czech glass factories like glass factory in Dobronín or company Sklo Bohemia a.s. Světlá nad Sázavou.
Production of Czech glass factory in Okrouhlice isn´t only about bohemia crystal. It also includes functional decorative products, like paperweights, lamps for aromatic oils or chandelier spare parts. Special productions are crystal mills for pepper, herbs and sea salt mills, coffee grinders and other serving accessories.
Our glass factory is also noted for great handicraft of original rings inside crystal glass and sealing photographs and post stamps into crystal paperweights. Under the leading of Zdeněk Koťara, the glass masters hold the world primacy in these unique production procedures.
