Lobmeyr, Balloon with fish, Balloon tumbler

In first project with Vienna's Lobmeyr glassworks, the New York designer Ted Muehling uses historical trends to create a modern collection combining utility, beauty and wit. "I wanted to return to a time before stemware when glasses were both practical and poetic, celebrating their contents," he says. Muehling was inspired by the simple, utilitarian shapes of Roman and early European glass, as well as the delicate designs from the Vienna Secession period by Loos and Hoffman for Lobmeyr.