Diary of a Demented Store Owner

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

A Reminder


German glass manufacturer Desag's line of drawn antique (GNA or Artista 75- great name made even more so when Mikey takes the trouble to look it up in a dictionary and finds out that Artista is 'the bristle like protuberance near the tip of the antenna of certain flies'- I guess the art of marketing and copywriting is a little lost in Germany.) has always been a very popular glass. Lightly scribed non-directional striations, this glass is 'drawn' in free air so that there are no chill marks making the glass extremely clean and delicate looking. It's also perhaps the easiest glass we carry, to cut. 
Desag says the entire line is fully fusible (except their #8010 Red) within their selection of about 20 transparent colours with a coe of 94.
See colours here. Nice...
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mikey,where did you find the GNA? As we all know our "one and only" doesn't carry colours anymore...

16 January 2013 at 13:06
Mikey Figgy said...

We knew of, and anticipated the current GNA shortage when supply was still good. Problem was from a false saving by Desag thinking the lower cost of Chinese manufactured day tanks was a good move. Replacement will take one year plus but it will be eventually available once again...

16 January 2013 at 14:13

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