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To me the most surprising property to this day is how thin and light these glasses were. They are almost as thin as a modern wine glass but I don't remember eve

by aeyes 2y ago

To me the most surprising property to this day is how thin and light these glasses were. They are almost as thin as a modern wine glass but I don't remember ever breaking one accidentally. Edit: The article is poorly researched. The design pictured wasn't the only design they sold, it was just the most common one used in restaurants and bars. I had these glasses with kids prints. I found a page which shows a few more designs: https://militariasammlermarkt.de/ddr/zum-thema-ddr-ostalgie/3480/superfest-bierglas-0-25-liter-mit-logo-veb-sachsenglas-schwepnitz-ddr-lausitzer-glas https://militariasammlermarkt.de/ddr/zum-thema-ddr-ostalgie/...

hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
They specifically mentioned they had a range of glasses, so don't know why you say it's poorly researched: > For their range of glasses – which included variants for champagne, schnapps and cognac as well as three different sizes for beer – the designer trio were inspired by the equally beautiful so-called Wirteglas, which the East German designers Margarete Jahny and Erich Müller created in the early 1970s.
- Retric 2y ago
  He’s referring to the patterns on the glass not the shape of the glass. > One factor that may have hindered Superfest’s competitiveness in a unified Germany was its functionalist, austere look. Especially in southern parts of the country, drinkers like to swig their beer from glasses decorated with gold edging or engraved coats of arms. “Baroque decoration on a Superfest glass wouldn’t work,” says Höhne. “It would violate the design itself.” The 6th image in the carousel on that page shows gold rimmed glasses with a decorative design, hardly an austere look.
  - cududa 2y ago
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    - HeatrayEnjoyer 2y ago
      No more pedantic than the article already was.
  - g15jv2dp 2y ago
    > He’s referring to the patterns on the glass not the shape of the glass. That's clearly not true... It's not the patterns on the glass that separate a champagne glass from a cognac one. Or different sizes of beer glasses...! Did we read the same sentence?
    - Retric 2y ago
      Again this isn’t about champagne glass vs cognac. > That's clearly not true... It's not the patterns on the glass I was calling attention to where aeyes said “I had these glasses with kids prints.” clearly a reference to decoration not the types of glasses produced. The company varied both the types of gasses and the decoration on those glasses, but the article is only giving them credit to the types of glass not the wide range of purely cosmetic designs.
      - hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
        FWIW, as the original commenter you replied to, just wanted to say not sure why you're getting these negative responses - I appreciated your clarification and didn't originally see that last image with the glasses with decorations. What you wrote made sense to me.

by aeyes 2y ago

hn_throwaway_99 2y ago

They specifically mentioned they had a range of glasses, so don't know why you say it's poorly researched: > For their range of glasses – which included variants for champagne, schnapps and cognac as well as three different sizes for beer – the designer trio were inspired by the equally beautiful so-called Wirteglas, which the East German designers Margarete Jahny and Erich Müller created in the early 1970s.

Retric 2y ago
He’s referring to the patterns on the glass not the shape of the glass. > One factor that may have hindered Superfest’s competitiveness in a unified Germany was its functionalist, austere look. Especially in southern parts of the country, drinkers like to swig their beer from glasses decorated with gold edging or engraved coats of arms. “Baroque decoration on a Superfest glass wouldn’t work,” says Höhne. “It would violate the design itself.” The 6th image in the carousel on that page shows gold rimmed glasses with a decorative design, hardly an austere look.
- cududa 2y ago
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  - HeatrayEnjoyer 2y ago
    No more pedantic than the article already was.
- g15jv2dp 2y ago
  > He’s referring to the patterns on the glass not the shape of the glass. That's clearly not true... It's not the patterns on the glass that separate a champagne glass from a cognac one. Or different sizes of beer glasses...! Did we read the same sentence?
  - Retric 2y ago
    Again this isn’t about champagne glass vs cognac. > That's clearly not true... It's not the patterns on the glass I was calling attention to where aeyes said “I had these glasses with kids prints.” clearly a reference to decoration not the types of glasses produced. The company varied both the types of gasses and the decoration on those glasses, but the article is only giving them credit to the types of glass not the wide range of purely cosmetic designs.
    - hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
      FWIW, as the original commenter you replied to, just wanted to say not sure why you're getting these negative responses - I appreciated your clarification and didn't originally see that last image with the glasses with decorations. What you wrote made sense to me.