Baccarat
The timeless music made by the motions of glassmakers reflects the secrets of the alchemists’ legendary Athanor furnace; the mysteries of transformation; the myths of the elements, earth, water, air and fire; and their purifying and prolific properties. The essential gesture of the glassblower expresses the nobility, humility and transcendence of human labor before the glowing furnace: with puffs of air blown through a pipe, he creates a fragile but eternal, inert crystal object, molded with spirituality. A precious Baccarat piece.
These gestures, imbued with such devotion, have hardly changed since the Baccarat glassworks was founded. The arm, mouth, hand and very soul of the glassblower, along with the glasscutter, the engraver and the gilder, are entirely absorbed in the metamorphosis of archaic material into enchanting light. The expertise of these elite craftsmen has evolved harmoniously and consistently in keeping with technical progress. Nurtured by history as well as past and present techniques, the Baccarat know-how is an incomparable aesthetic and industrial legacy.