Set of 6 Glasses
Moser for the Hotel Praha
1970s

Description:

A set of 6 glasses, designed for the infamous Hotel Praha and manufactured by Czech glass company, Moser during the 1970s. 

Commissioned by the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia, construction began on the Hotel Praha in 1975. Beyond hosting the communist delegation, one of the salient aims of the Hotel was to entertain and impress foreign visitors. 

Amidst a backdrop of austerity in the years prior to the Velvet Revolution, the Hotel was an architectural emblem created by some of the leading architects and designers in the former communist state. The colossal, curved building covered 9800 square-meters and comprised 136 rooms, a restaurant, swimming pool, and bowling alley. 

Few examples of the designs created for this once immense Gesamtkunstwerk survive. This set of Moser glasses, with their notably weighted and sculptural stems, represent the rigorous attention to detail that defined the Hotel Praha. Each detail, whether door handles, signage, furniture or lighting was designed with the whole hotel in mind. As such, the essence of this once colossal structure is distilled into even the smallest of objects. In these glasses for instance, the stem evokes the bulbous spheres of one of the main chandeliers that hung in the hotel's entrance. 

The glasses are in good vintage condition. Each is engraved with the Hotel Praha logo on the side and the Moser logo on the underside. 

Specifications:

Height: 18.2cm

Diameter: 7cm

Manufacturer: Moser 

Design Period: 1970s