Celebration Story

The elegant distinction of this softly textured, spun-silver cocktail shaker, with its beautiful accompanying goblets, makes it an ideal companion to Rose Uniacke’s exquisite and now newly returned line of Bohemian glassware.

These separate items sit beautifully side by side, harmonising in their pared-down simplicity, their responsiveness to light, and the play of sparkle and reflection on their different surfaces.

As with all Rose Uniacke objects the understatement of their design belies the intricacy and extraordinary expertise of their making. Each in their separate traditions, are the products of a craftsmanship whose origins stretch back into the distant past.

The shaker and goblets are made of British silver by a process known as spinning, first recorded in ancient Egypt - a trade so technically complex, it is now on the critically endangered Heritage Crafts list.

Hand-spun and then hand-hammered by the last hammer craftsman in Sheffield, the objects have a beautiful dimpled surface, like water, softening and holding the light and deepening the silver’s natural range of colour.

The glasses are all hand-blown in the Czech Republic in the centuries-old Bohemian  tradition, from the purest lead-free, crystal glass. Combining inspiration from the Viennese Secessionist movement with the Bohemian tradition of drawing on the natural world, they are delicately swirled, from stem to bowl, like wind-ruffled water.

Side by side, these lovely objects sit, as if in conversation - silver and glass, telling us of water.