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Glass has, over the

centuries, changed from

as inert. It’s what privileged members of society. It
being an exclusive and makes this mate- was exclusively used for luxury
rial unique, and goods such as oils, essences and
luxury item for goods such it’s a quality which perfumes, and people did not
consumers clearly begin to fill it with drinks until
as oils, essences and value. According to a much later, when production
European-wide study became more efficient with the
perfumes, to becoming, commissioned by the advent of progressive glassblow-
European Container ing techniques. 17th-century Italy
today, part of our daily Glass Federation, glass stands out especially with
packaging is greatly its artistic glass manu-
lives, but not only in the appreciated throughout facturing, continually
society because it pre- surpassing itself in the
form of glasses, bottles serves the taste of the con- production of carafes,
tent, is healthy and does bottles and glasses.
and food containers. not harm the environment. The final victory of
container glass came
FROM A LUXURY through industrialisa-
PRODUCT TO AN tion in the 18th and
EVERYDAY ITEM 19th centuries, and it
both their taste and freshness, Container glass in the form of has been marked by
as glass containers do not pass small flacons can be found in the continuous improve-
on any taste or impurities to tombs of the earliest civilisations, ments in production
their contents. This special qual- however, manual production and shape to the
ity is immensely important, par- remained highly complex until
ticularly in the food industry, and the late Middle Ages, resulting in
experts therefore describe glass glass being reserved for the more

The 2017 German Packaging Award in Gold went to
Wiegand-Glas for its characteristic Franconian Bocksbeutel
wine bottle. A truly successful design that shows how an
instantly recognisable traditional product can be turned into
something contemporary.
Photo: Haus des Frankenweins Frankenwein-Frankenland GmbH

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