Liquor Service Val-Saint-Lambert, Charles Graffart
Carafe and glasses made of cut crystal, Model Muscadet rose, designed by Charles Graffart.
Data sheet
- Style
- 50s/80s
- Country of origin
- Belgium
- Material
- Colorless cut crystal (facet cut), pink overlaid in double red.
- Type
- Series Muscadet, Rose. Carafe model 184. Glasses model 749. Source: sample book Val Saint Lambert 1957
- Designer
- Graffart, Charles (1883-1967), artistic director at Val-Saint-Lambert from 1942-1958
The Val-Saint-Lambert crystal works were founded in 1825 in the former Val-St-Lambert monastery in Seraing, Belgium, south of Liège. To this day they are still run as a family business.
Well-known designers were Léon Ledru (1855–1926), Victor Horta, Henry van de Velde, Joseph Simon (1874–1960), Charles Graffart (1893–1967).
From 1920 onwards, production successfully focused on glassware in the Art Deco style. At the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modernes in 1925, Val-Saint-Lambert's exhibits were awarded the Grand Prix.