Carafe and glasses

Wiesław Sawczuk graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław; Faculty of Glass and Ceramics, in 1959, one year later he started working in Zakładowy Ośrodek Wzorcujący, a design centre belonging to the "Hortensja" Glassworks in Piotrków Trybunalski. One of his first designs was a glass set, which included wine glasses in a distinctive shape of a sandglass. Simple, geometrical form, conic bases made of float glass and use of smoked and violet glass are a result of artist's research. These simple forms can be compared to European concepts from that period, especially to Scandinavian design.