Royal goblets
Edward VII, popes, eastern courts — a client list as signatures.
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A double equation: lead-free crystal, harder and clearer (and far harder to cut — making the handwork doubly prodigious), and jewel colours from rare oxides whose recipes are house secrets — then a century and a half supplying courts made the name protocol: official Czech state gifts are Moser to this day.
For the half-day visitor no — the valley's colonnades come first. For two nights and more, a clear yes: the living industrial experience is the spa rhythm's perfect opposite, which is its beauty — ninety minutes door to door suffices. Design lovers rank it first without the question.
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'Glass of kings': Moser, 1857, is the world name of glass opulence — lead-free crystal cut and coloured by hand exclusively, that dressed the tables of Edward VII, popes and eastern palaces — and the mother factory here in the city's suburb opens museum and works to visitors. The museum's two thousand pieces chronicle a century and a half: signed royal goblets, the famous gilded Splendid services, and Moser's inimitable jewel colours (alexandrite shifting to violet) — a concentrated lesson in elegance even for the indifferent. The essence is the live factory tour: from the hall gallery you watch blowers round their orange furnaces turning glowing masses on their pipes — craft handed down generations without one machine: twenty minutes worth the whole museum.
Edward VII, popes, eastern courts — a client list as signatures.
Glowing masses turning on pipes — zero machines since 1857.
Kpt. Jaroše 46/19, 360 06 Karlovy Vary