About Us
GLASS STUDIO
The Flek Glass company was founded in 1989 by Josef Flek jr.and his father Josefem Flekem. In the period the historical glass replicas manufacture hadn´t been known so much yet and the company owner wanted to offer his customers something else. The studio was founded in a family house in Nový Bor, an important glass manufacturing centre. It included a small studio furnace with one pot for 40 kgs of glass mass and one annealing kiln. Under these conditions the manufacture runs until now, naturally with certain innovations and development. The production has been environmentaly friendly as utility glass cullet is used for melting, coloured with either brown or green bottles commonly used used for beverages. Similarly to the production also boxes including our glass conform to environmental standards.
The glassworks is a family enterprise from the very beginning. The company is managed by the owner´s spouse Eva Fleková and the complete manufacture is provided by Josef Flek jr., who works in the hotshop with an employee. Among first customers there are especially museums and galleries in our country and in Slovakia. Later on, we started to export our products to the Netherlands, Sweden, France, Germany, the Great Britain, Switzerland and Denmark. Within the time our glass crossed the European borders and reached Japanese, American, South African and Australian markets. The most popular products both in our country and abroad became first of all kuttrolfs, roemers, angsters, large jugs and decanters.
OUR GLASS
The manufacture is oriented onto replicas of historical bottles, candlesticks, decanters, kuttrolfs, goblets and other kinds of drinking or utility glass. These products are very skill and knowledge of ancient times glass demanding. The knowledge of the glassmaking development was gathered by Josef Flek jr. in old books and thanks to his work experience he reached a precision similar to the master glassmakers´ skill from the 13th to mid17th centuries. In creating new designs we are inspired both by old books and our customers.
WHO IS JOSEF FLEK
Josef Flek jr. was born in 1954 in Nový Bor. After finishing the basic school he entered the professional glass apprentice school where he served his time of glassmaking apprenticeship from 1969 – 1972. He got his first experience in the glass research institute in Nový Bor and since 1975 was working in the Crystalex glassworks. In 1982 he entered the glass apprentice school as a master of professional training. During this job went with his students through several hotshops in North Bohemia.
Despite of his own company establishment in 1989 he worked as the master for other five years. He exhibited his products in the Glass Centre in Kamenický Šenov and together with his father Josef Flek showed working in several glass symposia and exhibitions. Just his father should be mentioned who led him to the love to glass. Josef Flek father was regarded as a very master of the craft. His products were exhibited for example in Brussels, Osaka, Toronto and in museums in Nový Bor and Kamenický Šenov.