Engineering Collection is a result of cooperation of Koncern Design and glassworks Rückl Crystal a. s. It is related to the tradition of Czech, hand-craft crystal glassware and moves it forward.
Czech crystal glassware has become a victim of unstable development of Czech economy in last decades. Glass industry was a major artefact of export policy of communist Czechoslovakia in years 1948 – 1989. In last seventeen years it has been facing new phenomenon – turist industry. Both have devastating impacts: It was and it is required to remain at the historicist forms. As a consequence, the minimal development was made.
Five collections from Koncern Design meet current requirements for utility and aesthetics in the field of luxurious beverage glassware. It brings new fancy features into stagnate glass work industry.
Engineering Collection is, exactly in the spirit of experiments of Koncern Design, based on the ironic concept. The matter and the shape of individual collections are elicted from the appereance of metal machine components. Quatation, roughness marks and adequate engineering standarts sand blasted into the surface of the 24% lead crystal then evoke a polemic with the character of glassware industry. The exact engineering products are not a part of symbolic language of the times of avangard any more. Nowadays, we sense it strictly aesthetically, as peculiar elegancy of former industrial epoque. This idiom , in the Engineering Collection, is apllied on the glassware products as another of possible historicist ornamentics. Koncern Design entered into the area of which others designers avoid from. Company Rückl Crystal produces, in smaller series, sets of beverage glassware for whiskey (M80x6), champagne (Morse 1:50), wine (red wine – Involute gearing, white wine – Basic Quatation) and absinth (Splined Shaft).
