Video: Steampunk faceted glasses and their history
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The faceted glass is 70 years old. Over the past period, traditional Russian dishes have had ups and downs. Moreover, the last point was observed in the truest sense of the word. As for the takeoffs, this definition clearly fits a photo shoot of faceted glasses in the Steampunk style, which was arranged by restless designers for the dishes. In the meantime, readers admire glasses in an unusual role, we will tell you about the history of the origin of the famous glassware.
The prototype of the Soviet faceted glass first appeared on the table of Peter I, who was distinguished by his desire to bring something new into the life of his subjects. One of these innovations was the desire to abandon wooden and earthenware dishes, which Peter I perceived to be too bulky and rough.
As a result, Russian glassblowers presented the emperor with a "Granchak", assuring that he was not only beautiful, but also extremely durable. Peter I decided to check the last statement and, without thinking twice, dropped the glass with all his might on the floor. The dishes, naturally, broke.
However, the ruler issued a decree "To be a glass". The subjects did not hear the herald's speech and replaced โto beโ with โto beatโ, after which many glasses were broken, and the tradition of breaking dishes for good luck was born.
By the way, there are a lot of winged expressions that appeared precisely thanks to the faceted glass. "Thinking for three" meant pouring a half-liter bottle of vodka into three glasses justly, and "as simple as 3 kopecks" hinted not only at the mediocrity of the interlocutor to whom the expression referred, but also at the simplicity of a faceted glass, which cost exactly 3 kopecks in Soviet times โฆ
Of course, faceted glasses could not be painted, as did Gwyneth Leech and their paper counterparts, but such dishes did not break for a long time, was well washed in the dishwasher and fixed well in the cup holder due to the rim.
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