Bohemian Glass: The Great Masters

Bohemian glass after the Second World War in the new chapter of "Le Stanze del Vetro". Bohemia (the historical name for the largest of the lands that make up the present-day Czech Republic) was ho ...

Bohemian glass after the Second World War in the new chapter of "Le Stanze del Vetro". Bohemia (the historical name for the largest of the lands that make up the present-day Czech Republic) was home to glassmaking innovators from the twelfth century onwards, who helped shape and augment the impact of European glass. Glassmakers based in this region were permanently pushed to invent new forms of glass production by competitive pressures from other European glassmaking centres, primarily in Germany and also in Italy, whose superb outputs dominated the global market in decorative glass. This ma