Company Profile
Light — Design — Experience
Lasvit is a dynamic international company based in Prague, the Czech Republic, which designs, develops and creates original design objects made of glass, crystal, and other precious materials. Lasvit builds on the basis of famous Czech artistic craft traditions, foremost glassmaking, with a history of more than one thousand years. The high standard of Lasvit is based on the amalgam of experience and skilfulness of many generations of Czech glassmakers, technology and procedures proved by history, craft perfection and traditional handicraft, and the creativity of contemporary designers, educated and trained at the best schools of art in this country and abroad. The results of this combination are original artefacts that express the feelings and ideas of our times, but also feature the timeless values typical for classical works of art.
“Lasvit” evokes a blend of two Czech words – love and light (láska and svit). Apart from the personal relations to the company founder’s names it thus pronounces the positive emotional approach of the company as well as the optical quality, which is typical of the luxury materials the company mainly deals with.
Lasvit’s field of action extends from the noted European metropolises of design, such as London, Paris and Munich, via Prague, to Moscow, Bejing and Dubai. All of them are places where one can meet artefacts and special custom-made realizations from company’s production, featured in private or public collections, interior accessories of private palaces and residences or in theatres, exquisite company facilities, luxury hotels and casinos.
Three Pillars
Light, design and experience are the three solid pillars of the Lasvit philosophy. This develops in a way of thinking about the items, their shapes and the choice of material.
Design opens eyes wide. Glass – the magic material the Lasvit company works with primarily – is the only matter capable of bewitching light at the supreme level. It hides it inside, multiplies, fl ashes it and refl ects it back, it causes the light to bend and refract and split up into the colours of the rainbow. Glass is very close to the nature of the light itself. The beautiful and attractive things full of light that one keeps in their surroundings or that wait on you bring unusual experiences. And Lasvit pursues a permanent experience. The strong and real perceptions that leave traces in your mind make one’s life better and enrich everyday life, because experience is the only luxury that really exists. That is the reason Lasvit enjoys showing people things in the right light.
