This material has made history. The unproblematic material allowed designers to develop a reduced aesthetic for household items. Since the 1920s, refractory glassware has been used by top Bauhaus designers. It was the first time that a “technical” glass was produced, and it inspired them in a functional and formal sense. They introduced this ideal and utterly timeless material for the use in the kitchen, and this is precisely the place where it hasn’t lost any of its charms down to the present day.

Borosilicate glass - originally a special glass for the optical and chemical industries, developed in 1891 in the glassworks of Ernst Abbe and Otto Schott in Jena, Thuringia - went on an unprecedented triumphal march around the world. The designers at the nearby Bauhaus in Weimar were fascinated by the idea of laboratory glass in the kitchen. They gave the new material its contemporary form and found new uses for it.