![]() The range of manufactured products using watermarked glass engraved with a B was a great success in France and on the export market between 18. ![]() This researcher had conducted studies into ways to color glass and now, promoted to assistant director, he developed the first multicolored paperweights made of crystal. In 1841, the arrival of a thirty-year-old engineer, François-Eugène de Fontenay, already an expert at the Plaine de Walsch factory, whose operations had extended to Vallerysthal, launched the production of coloured glass. d'Artigues proved to be ideal: in the Vosges foothills, from Épinal to Blamont, Rambervillers, Lunéville and Moyen, a whole number of busy earthenware factories would buy back even the smallest amounts of glass-crystal waste to manufacture faience tableware. Additionally, the strategic choice of location made by A.G. The factory benefited from an extraordinary boom linked to strong international growth on the luxury market. This was the beginning of a lengthy series of orders from royal families and heads of state from all over the world. īaccarat received its first royal commission in 1823 from King Louis XVIII. This decision gave rise to two family dynasties, one owning the company's capital, the other managing the business. Godard-Desmarest senior entrusted the management of the company to a young polytechnic engineer, Jean-Baptiste Toussaint. In 1824, the crystal glassworks obtained the legal status of a limited company. This was a small factory near vast forests producing huge amounts of timber, which until then had been manufacturing pane glass. Prior to 1823, the wealthy Parisian, Pierre-Antoine Godard-Desmarest had also purchased the glassworks of Trélon in the Thiérache region of northern France. The full buy-out of shares was completed for the sum of FF 396,000. ![]() In order to maintain initial levels of activity Gabriel d'Artigues was forced to hand over the company to three wealthier partners: Pierre-Antoine Godard-Desmarest, a former director of military supplies under the Empire, François-Marie-Augustin Lescuyer-Vespin, a landowner in Charleville, and Nicolas-Rémy Lolot, a trader in Charleville. The technique, however, was not that used for Bohemian Crystal, very well known in Europe and originating in Bohemia, but rather the singular rediscovery of the so-called English technique, worked in an original way at the glassworks of Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche between 17. 1823-1870 Īlthough the name of the factory was still "Verrerie" (glassworks), in actual fact it was already specialising in crystal. By that time over 3000 workers were employed at the site. Production consisted of window panes, mirrors and stemware until 1816 when the first crystal oven went into operation. In 1764, King Louis XV of France gave permission to found a glassworks in the town of Baccarat in the Lorraine region in eastern France to Prince Bishop Cardinal Louis-Joseph de Laval-Montmorency (1710-1802). To justify the creation of this enterprise in a request made to the king in 1764 by the owner of the site, Monseigneur de Montmorency-Laval wrote: "Sire, France lacks artistic glassware, which is why the products from Bohemia enter in such great quantity: from which follows an astonishing export of deniers, at a time when the kingdom would need them so badly”. In this way, the Bishop wanted to encourage the creation of this industry in the tiny village of Baccarat. One of the main owners of the Vosges forest where this driftwood came from, namely Monseigneur de Montmorency-Laval, bishop of Metz, that wanted to find another use for it and set a lucrative fire pit in Baccarat which became a glassworks. History īaccarat vase 1890-1900, Victoria and Albert Museum 1764-1816 Īfter the closure of the Rozières saltworks in 1760 due to a drop in the salt-content of the water, there became available a large quantity of wood floating down to the town of Baccarat. On 23 December 2020, four financing funds based in Hong Kong - Tor, Sammasan, Dolphin and Corbin - took control of the capital of Fortune Fountain Limited (FFL), the holding company that held 97% of the shares of Baccarat. In 2018, Fortune Fountain Capital, a Beijing-based financial group, acquired an 88.8 per cent stake of the company from Starwood Capital Group and L Catterton. The company was then acquired by Starwood Capital Group, which used the name for a luxury hotel called Baccarat Hotel New York, featuring the company's chandeliers, decorative pieces and glasses. Groupe du Louvre was the majority shareholder of the company until 2005. ![]() The company owns two museums: the Musée Baccarat in Baccarat, and the Musée Baccarat in Paris on the Place des États-Unis. ![]() Baccarat ( French: ) is a French luxury house and manufacturer of fine crystal located in Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. ![]()
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