This glass adds a playful and cheerful splash of color to the summer garden table - or any other festively decorated dining table. It owes its pale pink translucent hue to metal oxides that are added to the glass mass before the vessel is formed.

And if you're thinking, wait, I know this glass from somewhere? Then you are absolutely right. You may have come across it on vacation in France. Or (in the clear glass version) in our range, because we have had the famous bistro glasses from the "Picardie" series in our range for years. They come from Duralex, based in the Loire Valley near Orléans, and impress with their resistance to breakage and heat.

Duralex in central France has been producing utility glass from tempered glass for decades. The process of making glass less impact-sensitive and at the same time heat-resistant by alternating between heating - to around 600 °C - and rapid cooling in the annealing lehr has now also been mastered by others. However, hardly any glass has achieved such worldwide fame as the bistro glass from the "Picardie" series, which has long been an integral part of French pubs.

Tempered glass is considered impact-resistant and shatterproof. Nevertheless, you should handle these drinking glasses with the same care as any other "normal" glass, as tempered glass is under tension so that the vessels are also suitable for hot drinks. Microscopic cracks in the material - caused by knocks or blows, for example during the cleaning process in the dishwasher - or material fatigue due to ageing can cause the stress ratios to become unbalanced and the glass to break.