A limited re-edition of the Stockholm drinking set, designed by Professor Stanislav Libenský in 1969.
The edition is sold out. Its proceeds supported the Stanislav Libenský Award.
A glass for every occasion
“Between 1968 and 1972 the Czechoslovak embassy in Stockholm was built to a design by Jan Bočan, Jan Šrámek and Zdeněk Rothbauer. The architects chose the Libenský–Brychtová duo to complete the interior, and the two artists created cast-glass sculptures, light objects and a structural wall for the building. In addition, Stanislav Libenský designed – exclusively for this particular setting – a cocktail set called Stockholm. The original design of the six-piece drinking set dates from 1969; it was produced in a limited series in 1972 by the then state enterprise Karlovarské sklo (Moser) in Karlovy Vary. The set consists of goblets of blown and cut crystal glass. What became of the glasses from the Stockholm embassy is unknown. In the Czech Republic, a few individual goblets from the original series remained in family use at Mrs Brychtová’s home, and one set is in the North Bohemian Museum in Liberec, where it has been shown at many prestigious exhibitions at home and abroad,” says Oldřich Palata, curator and one of the leading experts on Libenský’s work.
The set comprises six glasses: for white wine, red wine, water, whisky, liqueur and champagne. Each glass is signed with the SL 69 mark and numbered. The edition was limited to 500 sets.
The profit from sales was donated to the Stanislav Libenský Award, an international competition for art-university graduates working in glass.
The glasses were made by hand, blown into wooden moulds, so every piece is an original. Quality came first: each set passed a multi-stage quality inspection and was supplied in a luxury gift box designed by Jan Činčera.
