The Journal

Notes on colour, craft and the table: how handblown glass gets its colour, how to care for it, and how to set a table around it.
Which Glass for Which Cocktail
The glass is not decoration — it sets the temperature, controls the dilution and decides how much aroma reaches you. A working guide to which glass suits which drink, and the four shapes that cover almost everything. Read more...
Holiday Entertaining: A Table Worth Sitting At
What to actually put on the table over the holidays — how many glasses per seat, where colour earns its place, how to set a table that survives four hours, and what to do about the washing up. Read more...
How to Mix Colours on a Table
Coloured glass does not behave like paint — it is light coming through a material, not light bouncing off one. Four ways to combine tints on a table, which of our seven colour families sit together easily, and how candlelight changes all of it. Read more...
A Glassware Gift Guide: What to Give, and for Which Occasion
Glassware is one of the few gifts that gets used weekly and still feels like an object rather than a supply. How to choose the right piece by occasion, by how well you know the person, and by how much you want to spend. Read more...
Choosing the Right Glass Shape: Wine, Flute, Coupe, Tumbler and Highball
What each glass shape is actually doing for the drink inside it — and how to work out which four or five shapes you need, rather than buying eleven and using three. Read more...
How Handblown Coloured Glass Is Made
Colour in glass is metal chemistry, and shape is four minutes of teamwork around a furnace. A walk through how a coloured crystal glass is actually made — and why the words pontil, marver and lume ended up on our collections. Read more...
How to Care for Coloured Crystal Glassware
Handblown crystal is thinner, lighter and more variable than machine-pressed glass, and it asks for a slightly different routine. Here is how to wash, dry, store and keep coloured crystal clear — and what causes the cloudiness that never comes out. Read more...