Hans Harald Rath designed the“Alpha“ set in 1952. The even shape full of tension makes the glasses lie smoothly in the hands. The idea came from a medieval copper tumbler, itself influenced by Islamic shapes. Following the trend of the fifties the glasses can be stapled– bearing the spirit the Frankfurter Küche(“for the young household”).
Thinnest Muslin glass, mouth blown into wooden forms, gives them elegance. Alpha is available with a tilted stone engraved line around the tumbler. You think gravity plays mad and the water surface is dancing in your glass.