HOLMEGAARD Itallbeganinabog IN 1825, AT THE AGE OF FORTY-NINE, HENRIETTE DANNESKIOLD-SAMSØE WAS WIDOWED AND LEFT WITH THE HOLMEGAARD MANOR, INCLUDING 3500 ACRES OF BOG LAND. PEAT AND AN ENTERPRISING WOMAN SOON HAD THE FIRST FURNACE GLOWING AND THE REST IS HISTORY. For the first couple of years only green bottles left the Holmegaard Glassworks, but our countess aimed higher. Goblets in clear glass were the fashion, and in Bohemia they knew how to blow them. Soon new furnaces were blazing and Holmegaard could set the table with Madeira glasses, pinch bottles, hyacinth glasses, hipflasks, and potpourri jars. Her son, Christian Conrad Sophus, moved the bottle production to the newly builtKastrupGlassworks,andHolmegaardcouldconcentrateonthefine art of glassmaking. Increasingly sophisticated techniques attracted inventive artists, and a tradition of developing and designing would soon establish Denmark’s oldest glassworks as a benchmark in glassware. Today Holmegaard designs and makes glasses blown by mouth and machine using the latest and most advanced methods. Each piece of glass blown by mouth is unique and handmade by glassmakers, blowing the exactly right amount of air through his narrow pipe. Variations and small bubbles in the glass are inevitable and form part of the charm that characterizes a glass made by mouth and hand. Glasses blown by mouth at Holmegaard are recognized by the Swan logo. With its crown and three waves, it is the crest of Danneskiold-Samsøe. Not to put on airs, but as a testament to the heritage and tradition of fine glassmaking. 3
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