Gigogne glass
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The Gigogne glass is a collection of drinking glasses that has been produced in La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin by the glass manufacturer Duralex , a former subsidiary of the Saint Gobain group , since 1946 .
The glasses with the small belly and two filigree lines in the upper third can be found everywhere in France: in bars, restaurants, canteens and hospitals. The signet Made in France and Duralex as well as a number between 1 and 48 are embossed in the base of each glass so that this embossing can be read when looking into the glass.
The Gigogne glass is a design classic, it ended up in the collection of the Paris Museum of Decorative Arts and it is sold in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The glass collection found most distribution in the 1960s and 1970s. After that, the manufacturer changed hands several times and faced bankruptcy several times .
The high shock resistance of the glass is thanks to a special manufacturing process: A mixture of sand , lime and clay is melted at 1300 degrees before the mass is poured into a mold.
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- Florian Siebeck: Glass manufacturer Duralex. The magic glasses with the little belly. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 23, 2020 ( online edition )