Saturday, December 27, 2008

St Louis crystal

I'm coveting these St Louis crystal tumblers and glasses featured in Classic Entertaining I mentioned on Wednesday. I never really liked colored crystal-but a large portion of this book is devoted to them. I think I appreciate them more in a rainbow spectrum such as this and not matched. I'm rethinking in COLOR
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14 comments:

  1. pve designDecember 27, 2008 at 8:10 AM

    cha-ching, cheers to you!
    pretty glasses even for water!

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  2. MIMILEEDecember 27, 2008 at 10:14 AM

    I got the amber cut crystal glasses when I married many years ago and now I have a new appreciation for them........great post!

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  3. An Aesthete's LamentDecember 27, 2008 at 10:44 AM

    Hock glasses are often in colour, though I think the original purpose of the coloured glass was to disguise impurities in the wine ...

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  4. Julio MuaoDecember 28, 2008 at 12:49 AM

    I love the Tommy collection(I think that's what its called)! we have a set of the blue champagne flutes that were given to us by my partner's mom who is a serious tableware collector. Unfortunately, we have an odd number of 9 which is why she gave them to us. She originally had 12 but lost 4 to chipping or cracking and she does not believe in mixing and matching sets. That's a big plus for me because I like to mix and match patterns and she knows it so we get all her incomplete goodies. Yay!

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  5. cotedetexasDecember 28, 2008 at 2:33 AM

    Clear crystal is my favorite too, though I used green glasses at my dinner party - they go with my dishes. Hadn't thought of a rainbow effect - but it IS pretty!

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  6. Toby WorthingtonDecember 28, 2008 at 10:59 AM

    I covet them too, and in every colour.

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  7. Paul PincusDecember 28, 2008 at 1:23 PM

    these are very beautiful. i'm in the minority here, but i've always loved colour. my mother has the most incredible collection of moser coloured cut glass. i like your idea of a rainbow spectrum! i hate matchy-matchy anything.

    another great post. cheers.

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  8. DESIGN BY CATHLEENDecember 29, 2008 at 1:12 AM

    Love the colorful crystal! Makes for a beautiful post...

    :-)
    Cathleen

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  9. MichelleDecember 29, 2008 at 9:47 AM

    Love the darts and dots on the blue one! They remind me of Depression glass a little; maybe it's the colours.

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  10. Living the life in The Little CityDecember 29, 2008 at 10:38 AM

    Whoa! I love those. Thanks for the photo of them.

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  11. SERENDIPITYDecember 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM

    those are beautiful crystals .. & yah colored & not matching better ;)

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  12. AnonymousDecember 29, 2008 at 12:50 PM

    Every morning I eat my toaster waffles off mismatched Fiestaware & in the summer I serve iced tea in multicolor aluminum patio tumblers from the 195Os, so if I ever get around to buying good crystal, you know my table's gonna look exactly like that photo. Add a silver bowl of paintbox zinnias in the center & I'm ready to go.

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  13. aliceDecember 29, 2008 at 1:18 PM

    My grandparents had the most gorgeous ruby colored cut crystal wine glasses that they bought in Venice- they are now my parents and make a table look so pretty! I will always have a softness for anything resembling them! Though I do also love the blue tumblers... I think color brings out the detail in the cut crystal so beautifully.

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  14. stagingworks2009July 31, 2009 at 8:14 AM

    beautiful crystal artworks here. Our interior will be much more cozy when filled out by such stuff. Thanks buddy. From Vacant Home Staging

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