With a foreword by Professor Sylva
Petrova, the Director of the International Institute for Research in
Glass, this large, full-colour hardback book is the definitive study of post-WW2 Czechoslovakian pressed glass,
and includes a data disk containing copies of some 16 catalogues and a
searchable database of over 4,500 patterns and designs of items from the
factories working under the Sklo Union umbrella from 1945 to the
1990's.
- The book is the product of more than
ten years of research by Marcus Newhall, during which time the author
made several visits to the Czech Republic.The book used the larger part
of a reference collection built by the author. This gave a unique
opportunity for Simon Bruntnell, one of Britain's foremost glass
photographers, to photograph every object in detail to provide a
permanent reference for collectors and historians.