The Ellwanger Estate

Bistro Dou­ble Wall Glasses are fea­tured at the Ell­wanger Estate

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“The best part is see­ing your cof­fee sus­pended in the clear, and if you’re a cream and sugar cof­fee drinker, you’ll be amazed at the vor­tex of cof­fee­ness in the mug”.

Give up bad design for good

For Bodum this is more than a catch phrase, it is their essence. Founded in Switzer­land over 60 years ago Bodum seeks to be the world num­ber one name in cof­fee & tea mak­ers & accessories.

Bistro Dou­ble Wall Glasses are hip bistro styling in industrial-strength borosil­i­cate glass. Hand­blown in two double-walled, insu­lat­ing designs to float your bev­er­age of choice—hot or cold.

Win­ners of the 2007 iF Prod­uct Design Award, the Bistro Dou­ble Wall Glasses are per­fectly suited for a mul­ti­tude of hot and cold bev­er­ages as well as desserts. Made of heat-resistant borosil­i­cate glass, these ves­sels guar­an­tee that their con­tents will remain hot for a longer period of time while the glass itself remains cool to the touch.

Com­pany Per­spec­tives:
“For more than two decades Bodum has aimed to pro­duce arti­cles that are designed and man­u­fac­tured to the high­est level of func­tion­al­ity and qual­ity, mak­ing top design avail­able to every­one through­out the world, thanks to afford­able prices. Sim­plic­ity and func­tion­al­ity are the basic require­ments for a Bodum design. Out of this basic con­cept grows a shape with a unique and sim­ple beauty. Beauty–a qual­ity that is emi­nently sat­is­fy­ing to our senses and intel­lect and that enhances our daily life. Often it is the small, scarcely noticed objects that dis­play opti­mum func­tion­al­ity and design, sim­ply because they were cre­ated from pure neces­sity. The Bodum design team hopes you will enjoy the fruits of our efforts.” –Carsten Jor­gensen, Direc­tor of Design

Com­pany His­tory:
Bodum Design Group AG is a Switzerland-based man­u­fac­turer of house­hold appli­ances, table ser­vice, and uten­sils fea­tur­ing Scan­di­na­vian design. Led by Jor­gen Bodum, who, together with other mem­bers of the Bodum fam­ily, con­tin­ues to con­trol 100 per­cent of the com­pany founded by his father, Peter Bodum, the firm has long been syn­ony­mous with its San­tos and other vacuum-type cof­fee mak­ers. Since the early 1980s, how­ever, Bodum has diver­si­fied its prod­uct range to cover nearly all aspects of table ser­vice. The company’s prod­ucts include both vac­uum and “French press” cof­fee mak­ers, tea pots, presses and ket­tles, sil­ver­ware, cof­fee, tea and drink glasses, china, serv­ing and stor­age items, and kitchen uten­sils. The com­pany also has its own branded line of teas. Most of Bodum’s designs are cre­ated by Carsten Jor­gensen, Bodum’s long­time direc­tor of design; the com­pany has also hired out­side design­ers from time to time. In addi­tion to design­ing and pro­duc­ing its prod­ucts, Bodum oper­ates an inter­na­tional retail store net­work, with nearly 20 stores in ten coun­tries. The company’s prod­ucts are also sold through third-party retailer chan­nels. Bodum’s sales in 2001 were esti­mated to be CHF 200 million.