Interior design ideas

ROCOCO AND CLASSICISM
The change of two styles-a rococo and classicism-has occurred during short time. The rococo, in its form of the presentation, was close to a late baroque. In the early beginning, classicism comprised the elements of the Antiques and the Renaissance. The glass, on appearance faultlessly imitated jewels. It became an ideal material for imitation of precious ornaments and at the same time the base on which manufacture of the costume jewellery was developed.
It was the revival of enamel paints of the glass and the products of this magnificent glass became available to ordinary people. Snuffboxes in the form of glass vials, bottles for moonshine and the glass painted pictures created on various motives, became very popular.
ROMANTICISM AND HISTORICISM
This epoch is characterized by the invention of the glass imitated semiprecious stones -red and black hyalite, based on characteristic for an empire style semi-precious stones and minerals.
The most important discovery in the glass-making industry was a red florid prograss decorated by an engraving.
Almost all and glass-making factories produced suspension brackets for lusters. By the end of XIX century lusters in Venetian style with the multi-color thermally formed colors were in the great demand.

Renaissance style

Renaissance became important critical moment in the development of the European glass, considered from the technological and art points of view. The Venetian glass, on which for the first time there was colored enamel, has played a key role in it. It was the beginning of the era of present color glass,decors???????? implementation, and the engraving.

Czech glass makers aspired to open know-how of the Venetian glass and to imitate this glass. They have learned better, than in the past, to cook and clear the glass, to make new patterns and to use new kinds of techniques (the implementation of strings and sticks, an engraving a diamond edge, painting and bake out of the enamel paints). The painting of the enamel has brought the first significant successes to the Czech glass.

This epoch is characterized by big glasses (approximately 0, 7 liter), jugs, tetrahedral bottles and various cups and wine-glasses, as, for example, the so-called “Remer”. Wedding cups were also popular. Since the second half of XVI century, it is possible to speak about the regular export of the Czech glass.

Baroque style

After the end of Thirty-year war the best experts, technologists and artists have appeared in the glass making. Popularity of dressing has led to attempts to improve the quality of the glass which would replace expensive rock crystal. The success has not kept waiting. Czech masters made a strong, thick-walled, but thus the transparent and sparkling glass till now bearing a designation ????the Czech crystal????.

The surface of this glass was ideal for engraving and slotting.

At the end of XVII century glass makers began to make lusters and Czech has turned to the center of the lusters???????? manufacture.

GOTHIC STYLE
The oldest finds of glass beads in territory of the historical Czech areas concern to an early bronze age when this territory has been inhabited by the Celts, known techniques of glass making and drawings of enamel. Slavonic people lodged on these grounds in V and VI centuries B.C. As archeological finds testify, glass beads were very popular among them. Benedicts???????? monasteries were, obviously, engaged in the manufacture of glass. Monks owned skill of painting on the glass and drawing up of compositions of a color windowpane of which stained-glass windows were done. During an epoch of a Gothic style these stained-glass windows represented the important component of architecture of cult constructions. In medieval Czech glass-makings masters were able to cook and almost colorless glass. The glass which has been painted over various oxides of metals was also made.
The assortment of medieval glass was rather rich; it included both usual production, and unique subjects. Medieval Czech glass-makers could both do typical products, graceful glasses from the transparent glass, usually decorated with pasted on them beads, and bottles with the necks formed of several bound tubules, referred to “cutrolf” and served for drinking of moonshine and wine.
Special vessels for medieval doctors and druggists were also produced. The glass mosaic “Terrible court” testifies to exclusively high degree of development medieval Czech glass-making. Nowadays this mosaic decorates Golden Gate of a St. Vitt Cathedral in the Prague Hailstones, made under the order of so known “Sacred Roman empire” ruler and Czech King Charles IV (1370-1371).

Some aesthetes-Japanese, arranging tea ceremony, pour tea in plastic glasses. That they emphasize the purpose of a ceremony: to comprehend a charm of poor simplicity. We, covering a table and inviting visitors, reach the opposite purposes: to please friends with comfort of luxury accessible to us. For this reason it is necessary to forget or slightly to change the popular statement ???? It doesn????????t matter for me from what glass, the main thing is with whom ????. The question ????how to drink???? demands a serious preparation.
What can we advise? Gourmets and judges of good wine should pay attention to simple glasses, correctly having chosen their form. The leg should be convenient, and a bowl greater so that the wine bouquet could reveal in a glass sphere. Especially interested can study the production of the recognized Austrian firm Riedel which are letting out special degustation glasses. The firm carries out complex research works, has own laboratory, and as a result the unique correct vessels for Bordeaux, Burgundia are introduced to the consumers.
For those who do not mark so highly or just has no opportunity to drink the Burgundia collection in the evenings, we advise to collect on a table color utensils - from glass to crystal (it at clinking glasses the sound is much more melodious). Thus you will get in the fashionable jet planned by a well-known glass blowers -Baccarat and Saint-Louis: these respectable firms are known first of all for bright crystal glasses: addition of the oxidized metals, such as copper, cobalt, chrome, manganese, gives the tremendous color palette strengthened by a sunlight, passing through crystal. The most popular services of Baccarat and Saint-Louis are the color services that are also quite often thought up by modern designers who are willingly invited to the well-known factories: for example, Olivier Ganer worked for Saint-Louis, and the last Baccarat collection was thought out by Phillip Stark.

Perhaps, there is no of more demonstrative subject in the house, than a flower vase. It is possible to define so much if not all on this simple vessel: a taste of the mistress, her predilections, her following to the fashion and, even, her character. The fashion on vases varies promptly and considerably: it can be in honor a heavy bohemia crystal, carved, with an engraving, or an ordinary glass, multi-colored, pleasing an eye with masterful techniques.
There was a time when everyone without the exception took a great interest in vessels from simple transparent glass, reminding chemical flasks by its forms. Those who several years ago has bought these ????pharmaceutical utensils???? in lots, regret a little about it: you will never put an empty flask on a visible place, it cant bring any decor into the interior, but as how these vases-bottles help when there is a bouquet in the house! The ascetic, but extremely functional form of these vases shades perfectly any flowers - from a rose up to a dandelion.
Most popular of color glass recently can be named as muran glass. Speckled or “agate” when preparation of the future vessel is run in a color crumb, “filigree” (a pattern from the glass strings, laid out lengthways of the walls of the vessel), it represents a bright palette of strange colors. The best-known world producers of this glass are Venini ???????????? Barovier & Tosso, whose production can be found both in museums and gift shops.
Nowadays consumers became more particular about the art, and a choice of a vase became more than an ordinary purchase of household goods.
Soft “crystal” with a diamond facet in the form of rhombs (English firm Waterford, for example, ads in crystal weight silicon oxide) is again on the top of the interior fashion. Some firms have risked to experiment and were switched to design vessels (Leonardo, Ligne Roset, Kosta Boda), having received on an output of a vase-molecule or the vases similar to a children’s toy wood lark. Demand generates the offer.
Finally, one flower vase became an obligatory element of any house collection. Here master’s taste is shown to the full: you will not hide behind a bouquet anymore, it is necessary, that both the vessel, and a flower were on the top.