Klimchi
KLIMCHI is a premium brand specializing in Bohemian crystal glassware and drinkware. It is a collective of Bohemian designers and glassmakers dedicated to creating exceptional glassware for exceptional experiences. They exclusively use fine Bohemian glass, and all items are handmade. KLIMCHI offers a wide range of products, including tableware, drinkware, home decor, and gifts, with collections such as Hobnail, Marika, Kugel, and Shadows.
Clear Crystal Beer Mug Small 12 cm
Olive Green Ethel Highball Glass Set of 2
Amber Ethel Highball Glass Set of 2
Shadows Espresso Cup in Cloudless Clear Set of 2
Hobnail Small Bowl Light Blue 11.5Cm
Hobnail Small Bowl Light Green 11.5Cm
Hobnail Large Bowl Dark Green 23Cm
Egg Vase Lilac Hobnail 23Cm
Egg Vase Underlay Amber Hobnail 23 Cm
Egg Vase Light Blue Hobnail 23 Cm
Drama Vase Amethyst 32 Cm
Drama Vase Aquamarine 32 Cm
Clear Crystal Beer Mug Small 12 cm - Sets
Klimchi | Bohemian Crystal Glassware, Vases & Drinkware | Thomas Goode India
Klimchi is a premium Bohemian crystal glassware brand founded in 2019 by Czech entrepreneur Lukáš Klimčák, reviving a glass factory whose history stretches back to 1905. The factory is located in Kamenický Šenov, a city in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic, in the area widely known as the Crystal Valley, which has been the cradle of Bohemian glass production for centuries. The factory's infrastructure dates to its original 1905 construction, built by the same French engineers who constructed the Eiffel Tower in Parisa. A provenance that gives the studio's physical site a specific historical significance that connects its craft to one of the defining engineering achievements of the 19th century.
Bohemian glass — produced in the glassworks of Bohemia, Silesia, and the broader Crystal Valley region — has been considered among the finest in the world since the 17th century, when Bohemian crystal displaced Venetian glass as the dominant European luxury glass tradition. The region's geological and industrial combination — local deposits of silica sand, potash, and lime; abundant forest fuel; and generations of accumulated glassblowing expertise — created the conditions for a tradition of exceptional quality that the Klimchi studio inherits directly.
Klimchi's creative direction from the brand's founding was led by Czech glass designer Frantisek Jungvirt, a designer whose work has helped rediscover and popularise glassmaking techniques that had been largely forgotten, inspiring a new generation of glass artists and collectors. The studio produces over 30 colourways across its collections, with every piece handmade in Kamenický Šenov.
The Klimchi collection at Thomas Goode India spans decorative glass vases, water glasses, an espresso cup, and hobnail bowls.
The Klimchi Craft Approach
Bohemian Crystal Without Lead
Klimchi produces its glassware from a lead-free soda-potassium glass formulation — a glass composition whose optical properties match those of traditional lead crystal without the health and environmental concerns associated with lead oxide. The soda-potassium formulation achieves the same high refractive index as Bohemian crystal, the property that produces the characteristic light brilliance, clarity, and ring quality that distinguishes crystal from ordinary glass — without the lead that was historically required to achieve this standard.
The approach to colour at Klimchi is the most technically significant aspect of its production: colour additives are added directly to the glass batch before melting in the furnace, not applied to the surface of the formed piece as a spray, paint, or coating. The result is that colour runs through the full depth of the glass a Light Green, Citrine, or Amethyst Klimchi piece is that colour all the way through, from surface to core. Even at a chip, the colour remains consistent. This integral colour is what produces the depth and luminosity that surface-applied colour cannot replicate, and it is what distinguishes a genuine Bohemian coloured glass object from a cheaper alternative.
Every Klimchi piece is handmade: the glassblowers at the Kamenický Šenov studio shape each piece individually from molten glass, with the variation in wall thickness, optical depth, and surface character that is the inherent quality of hand-production.
The Hobnail Technique
The Hobnail pattern — the repeating raised circular bumps pressed into the glass surface that give the Hobnail collection its name — is one of the oldest and most widely practised surface techniques in Western glassmaking. Originally produced by pressing molten glass into a mould with hobnail protrusions, the technique produces a surface that scatters light across its raised nodes in a softer, more diffuse pattern than smooth glass or cut crystal. The tactile quality of Hobnail glass, the regular bumps that the fingers encounter when holding the piece is as much a part of the experience as the visual quality. Klimchi's Hobnail pieces produce this texture in coloured glass, combining the visual depth of integral colour with the tactile and optical character of the Hobnail surface.
The Klimchi Collection at Thomas Goode India
Marika Water Glasses
The Marika water glasses are the most practically useful format in the Klimchi range at Thomas Goode India — individual drinking glasses in handmade Bohemian coloured glass, available in Light Green, Citrine, and Light Blue colourways at two heights: Small at 9.5 cm and Tall at 14 cm. Individual pieces and sets of six are available.
At the formal dining table, a set of six Marika water glasses in a single colourway provides a complete water service whose colour character is immediately distinguishable from the standard clear crystal alternatives. The Light Blue colourway produces the most Mediterranean coastal reading a cool, sea-glass quality that complements both white bone china and the blue-toned tableware families in the Tea & Coffee Sets and Glasses collections. The Citrine produces a warm, amber-gold reading suited to candlelit settings and table compositions built around warm tones. The Light Green reads as organic and botanical, suited to settings where natural materials and earthy colours are the dominant aesthetic.
The Marika water glasses pair naturally with the Carretto Siciliano and Blu Mediterraneo table settings, and sit alongside the Saint-Louis and Dolce & Gabbana glasses in the broader Glasses collection.
Drama Vases
The Drama Vase series at 32 cm is one of the most statement-oriented pieces in the Klimchi range available in Amethyst and Aquamarine colourways, both achieved through integral colour addition at the glass batch stage. At 32 cm, the Drama Vase is a room-scale piece: its height and the depth of its colour make it a primary decorative focal point in any interior setting, from the dining room sideboard to the entrance hall console. The Amethyst Drama Vase, in deep purple, occupies the most dramatic and theatrical end of the Klimchi colour palette. The Aquamarine version carries a cooler, more translucent quality — a water-like depth that shifts between blue and green with the angle of light.
Both Drama Vases connect naturally to the broader Vases & Centrepieces collection at Thomas Goode India, where they sit alongside the Moser hand-cut crystal centrepieces and the Baccarat Spirale Vase as the collection's most statement-oriented decorative glass pieces.
Egg Vases
The Egg Vase series at 23 cm applies the Hobnail texture to a distinctive egg-shaped form in three colourways: Lilac Hobnail, Amber Hobnail, and Light Blue Hobnail. The egg form is an enduring decorative object format — found across cultures from ancient China and the European Fabergé tradition to contemporary decorative art and the Klimchi interpretation combines this universal form with the handmade Bohemian coloured glass tradition in a piece compact enough for the desk or window ledge but distinctive enough to function as a display object in a more formal setting.
The Hobnail surface on the Egg Vase scatters light across the egg's curved surface differently from a smooth glass equivalent, producing a softer, more diffuse glow particularly effective in natural light. The three colourways — Lilac (pale lavender), Amber (warm orange-gold), and Light Blue (soft sea glass) are each produced with the integral colour technique that gives the pieces their characteristic depth.
Romantic Crystal Footed Vases and Felicia
The Romantic Crystal Footed Vase series at 35 cm with 24K gold accents represents the apex of the Klimchi range at Thomas Goode India — formal decorative vases combining the handmade Bohemian crystal tradition with gold detailing, at the scale required for the formal dining table or mantelpiece. Two variants are available alongside the Felicia Romantic Crystal Footed Vase, also at 35 cm with 24K gold. At this scale and with the gold accent detail, these pieces occupy the same formal decorative register as the Moser crystal pieces, sharing the same Bohemian Czech Republic crystal heritage while offering a different formal vocabulary.
Eternity Vase
The Eternity Vase at 11.5 cm is the most compact decorative piece in the Klimchi range — a small-format vase suited to the desk, the bedside, or as part of a grouped decorative arrangement on a shelf or console. At this scale, the integral colour quality of the Bohemian glass becomes particularly concentrated: the small volume of glass holds its colour with exceptional depth, and the handmade character of the piece is visible in its form and wall quality. The Eternity Vase functions as the collection's most accessible gifting format is a compact luxury object that communicates material quality clearly.
Shadows Espresso Cup
The Shadows Espresso Cup in Cloudless Clear, available as a set of two, is the Klimchi range's most functional daily-use format. A crystal-clear glass espresso cup, the Shadows piece applies the Bohemian glass tradition to the espresso service in a format that is simultaneously contemporary in aesthetic and traditional in material. It sits in the Coffee Cup & Saucers collection at Thomas Goode India alongside the Lustre Espresso Cup and the Herend Apponyi Blue espresso cup.
Hobnail Bowls
The Hobnail Bowls in Light Blue, Light Green, and Dark Green extend the Hobnail collection into the bowl format. The Light Blue and Light Green bowls at 11.5 cm and the Dark Green bowl at 23 cm provide decorative and functional serving bowls in handmade Bohemian coloured glass — an alternative to the porcelain and bone china bowl formats dominant elsewhere in the Bowls & Dishes collection, and a material contrast that produces a different visual character at the table.
Klimchi and the Bohemian Crystal Tradition
The Czech Republic's Crystal Valley region — encompassing Kamenický Šenov, Nový Bor, and the broader Liberec-Ústí corridor — is the most historically significant glass production region in Central Europe and one of the most important in the world. The tradition of Bohemian glassmaking dates from the medieval period, but the distinctive character of Bohemian crystal — its clarity, its cutting tradition, and its coloured glass vocabulary was established in the 17th and 18th centuries, when Bohemian glassmakers pioneered a potash-lime glass formulation that surpassed the Venetian soda glass tradition in clarity and brilliance.
By the 19th century, Kamenický Šenov was one of the premier glassmaking cities in Bohemia — a centre of both production and design whose workshops supplied glassware to European courts, luxury houses, and international exhibitions. The factory whose kilns Klimchi uses today was built in 1905 at this same address, by engineers from Paris, and has been in continuous use for glass production since. This physical and craft continuity gives Klimchi a material heritage that very few contemporary glass brands can demonstrate.
Within the Thomas Goode India collection, Klimchi represents the contemporary strand of the Bohemian crystal tradition — complementing the Czech Moser crystal centrepieces, which represent the Bohemian tradition's most opulent formal expression, with a range of coloured and contemporary pieces that bring the same heritage to the table in a more accessible and varied format.
Gifting Guide
Klimchi pieces at Thomas Goode India are particularly suited to gifting for housewarming occasions, personal birthdays, and festive gifting where a colourful, contemporary luxury glass object is the intended message. The Drama Vases are the most impactful single-piece gifts from the range — a 32 cm Amethyst or Aquamarine Drama Vase makes an unmistakable impression. The Egg Vase sets of three colourways gifted together constitute a coordinated display of Bohemian coloured glass in the compact egg form. The Marika water glass sets of six provide a complete practical table luxury gift.
For those assembling a contemporary table from the Thomas Goode India collection, the Marika water glasses alongside the 1882 Ltd Lustre dinner plates and the Hering Berlin Aura plates create a fully contemporary luxury table in which Bohemian handmade glass, British studio ceramics, and contemporary German fine porcelain share the aesthetic.
To Shop Klimchi Bohemian Crystal Glassware, Vases & Drinkware Online in India, the full collection is available at thomasgoode.in/collections/klimchi, with personalised assistance from the Thomas Goode India team.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Klimchi and where is it made?
Klimchi is a premium Bohemian crystal glassware brand founded in 2019 by Lukáš Klimčák, producing handmade glass pieces at a factory in Kamenický Šenov in the Czech Republic's Crystal Valley region — a glass production centre with an unbroken tradition dating back centuries. The factory itself was built in 1905 by the same French engineers who constructed the Eiffel Tower. All Klimchi glassware is handmade in Kamenický Šenov using lead-free soda-potassium glass with integral colour additives for depth and consistency.
What is Bohemian crystal and why is it considered a luxury standard?
Bohemian crystal is glass produced in the Bohemia and Silesia regions of the Czech Republic, distinguished by its clarity, light brilliance, and the quality of its cutting tradition. The Bohemian glassmaking tradition dates from the medieval period and reached its definitive form in the 17th century, when Bohemian potash-lime glass surpassed Venetian glass as the dominant European luxury tradition. The Crystal Valley region of the Czech Republic — where Klimchi is produced — has been considered the cradle of world-renowned glass manufacturing for centuries.
How does Klimchi add colour to its glass and why does it matter?
Klimchi adds colour additives directly to the glass batch before melting in the furnace — not as a surface spray, paint, or coating applied after forming. This means the colour is integrated throughout the full depth of the glass. A Light Green or Amethyst Klimchi piece carries its colour all the way through the material, producing a depth and luminosity that surface-applied colour cannot replicate, and remaining fully coloured even at a chip or cut edge.
What Klimchi collections are available at Thomas Goode India?
Thomas Goode India carries: Marika water glasses in Light Green, Citrine, and Light Blue at Small (9.5 cm) and Tall (14 cm) formats, individual and sets of six; Drama Vases in Amethyst and Aquamarine at 32 cm; Egg Vases in Lilac, Amber, and Light Blue Hobnail at 23 cm; Romantic Crystal Footed Vases and Felicia Romantic Footed Vase at 35 cm with 24K gold; Eternity Vase at 11.5 cm; Shadows Espresso Cup in Cloudless Clear set of two; and Hobnail Bowls in Light Blue, Light Green, and Dark Green.
What is the Hobnail technique in glassware?
The Hobnail pattern is a surface technique that presses regular raised circular bumps into the glass surface, producing a tactile texture that scatters light across its nodes in a softer, more diffuse pattern than smooth glass. It is one of the oldest techniques in Western glassmaking, producing both a visual and a tactile quality. Klimchi's Hobnail pieces — Egg Vases, Hobnail Bowls — apply this technique to integrally coloured Bohemian glass, combining the depth of colour with the distinctive surface character of the Hobnail tradition.
How should Klimchi glass pieces be cared for?
Klimchi glass pieces should be hand-washed in warm water with mild liquid detergent and dried immediately with a soft lint-free cloth to prevent water marks. The Romantic Crystal Footed Vases and Felicia Vase with 24K gold accents should not go in a dishwasher, as alkaline detergents and high temperatures will erode the gold detailing. The Marika water glasses, Hobnail Bowls, and Drama Vases can be hand-washed normally. Store glass pieces on a stable, cushioned surface and handle by the body rather than by any projecting rim.
Klimchi | Bohemian Crystal Glassware, Vases & Drinkware | Thomas Goode India
Klimchi is a premium Bohemian crystal glassware brand founded in 2019 by Czech entrepreneur Lukáš Klimčák, reviving a glass factory whose history stretches back to 1905. The factory is located in Kamenický Šenov, a city in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic, in the area widely known as the Crystal Valley, which has been the cradle of Bohemian glass production for centuries. The factory's infrastructure dates to its original 1905 construction, built by the same French engineers who constructed the Eiffel Tower in Parisa. A provenance that gives the studio's physical site a specific historical significance that connects its craft to one of the defining engineering achievements of the 19th century.
Bohemian glass — produced in the glassworks of Bohemia, Silesia, and the broader Crystal Valley region — has been considered among the finest in the world since the 17th century, when Bohemian crystal displaced Venetian glass as the dominant European luxury glass tradition. The region's geological and industrial combination — local deposits of silica sand, potash, and lime; abundant forest fuel; and generations of accumulated glassblowing expertise — created the conditions for a tradition of exceptional quality that the Klimchi studio inherits directly.
Klimchi's creative direction from the brand's founding was led by Czech glass designer Frantisek Jungvirt, a designer whose work has helped rediscover and popularise glassmaking techniques that had been largely forgotten, inspiring a new generation of glass artists and collectors. The studio produces over 30 colourways across its collections, with every piece handmade in Kamenický Šenov.
The Klimchi collection at Thomas Goode India spans decorative glass vases, water glasses, an espresso cup, and hobnail bowls.
The Klimchi Craft Approach
Bohemian Crystal Without Lead
Klimchi produces its glassware from a lead-free soda-potassium glass formulation — a glass composition whose optical properties match those of traditional lead crystal without the health and environmental concerns associated with lead oxide. The soda-potassium formulation achieves the same high refractive index as Bohemian crystal, the property that produces the characteristic light brilliance, clarity, and ring quality that distinguishes crystal from ordinary glass — without the lead that was historically required to achieve this standard.
The approach to colour at Klimchi is the most technically significant aspect of its production: colour additives are added directly to the glass batch before melting in the furnace, not applied to the surface of the formed piece as a spray, paint, or coating. The result is that colour runs through the full depth of the glass a Light Green, Citrine, or Amethyst Klimchi piece is that colour all the way through, from surface to core. Even at a chip, the colour remains consistent. This integral colour is what produces the depth and luminosity that surface-applied colour cannot replicate, and it is what distinguishes a genuine Bohemian coloured glass object from a cheaper alternative.
Every Klimchi piece is handmade: the glassblowers at the Kamenický Šenov studio shape each piece individually from molten glass, with the variation in wall thickness, optical depth, and surface character that is the inherent quality of hand-production.
The Hobnail Technique
The Hobnail pattern — the repeating raised circular bumps pressed into the glass surface that give the Hobnail collection its name — is one of the oldest and most widely practised surface techniques in Western glassmaking. Originally produced by pressing molten glass into a mould with hobnail protrusions, the technique produces a surface that scatters light across its raised nodes in a softer, more diffuse pattern than smooth glass or cut crystal. The tactile quality of Hobnail glass, the regular bumps that the fingers encounter when holding the piece is as much a part of the experience as the visual quality. Klimchi's Hobnail pieces produce this texture in coloured glass, combining the visual depth of integral colour with the tactile and optical character of the Hobnail surface.
The Klimchi Collection at Thomas Goode India
Marika Water Glasses
The Marika water glasses are the most practically useful format in the Klimchi range at Thomas Goode India — individual drinking glasses in handmade Bohemian coloured glass, available in Light Green, Citrine, and Light Blue colourways at two heights: Small at 9.5 cm and Tall at 14 cm. Individual pieces and sets of six are available.
At the formal dining table, a set of six Marika water glasses in a single colourway provides a complete water service whose colour character is immediately distinguishable from the standard clear crystal alternatives. The Light Blue colourway produces the most Mediterranean coastal reading a cool, sea-glass quality that complements both white bone china and the blue-toned tableware families in the Tea & Coffee Sets and Glasses collections. The Citrine produces a warm, amber-gold reading suited to candlelit settings and table compositions built around warm tones. The Light Green reads as organic and botanical, suited to settings where natural materials and earthy colours are the dominant aesthetic.
The Marika water glasses pair naturally with the Carretto Siciliano and Blu Mediterraneo table settings, and sit alongside the Saint-Louis and Dolce & Gabbana glasses in the broader Glasses collection.
Drama Vases
The Drama Vase series at 32 cm is one of the most statement-oriented pieces in the Klimchi range available in Amethyst and Aquamarine colourways, both achieved through integral colour addition at the glass batch stage. At 32 cm, the Drama Vase is a room-scale piece: its height and the depth of its colour make it a primary decorative focal point in any interior setting, from the dining room sideboard to the entrance hall console. The Amethyst Drama Vase, in deep purple, occupies the most dramatic and theatrical end of the Klimchi colour palette. The Aquamarine version carries a cooler, more translucent quality — a water-like depth that shifts between blue and green with the angle of light.
Both Drama Vases connect naturally to the broader Vases & Centrepieces collection at Thomas Goode India, where they sit alongside the Moser hand-cut crystal centrepieces and the Baccarat Spirale Vase as the collection's most statement-oriented decorative glass pieces.
Egg Vases
The Egg Vase series at 23 cm applies the Hobnail texture to a distinctive egg-shaped form in three colourways: Lilac Hobnail, Amber Hobnail, and Light Blue Hobnail. The egg form is an enduring decorative object format — found across cultures from ancient China and the European Fabergé tradition to contemporary decorative art and the Klimchi interpretation combines this universal form with the handmade Bohemian coloured glass tradition in a piece compact enough for the desk or window ledge but distinctive enough to function as a display object in a more formal setting.
The Hobnail surface on the Egg Vase scatters light across the egg's curved surface differently from a smooth glass equivalent, producing a softer, more diffuse glow particularly effective in natural light. The three colourways — Lilac (pale lavender), Amber (warm orange-gold), and Light Blue (soft sea glass) are each produced with the integral colour technique that gives the pieces their characteristic depth.
Romantic Crystal Footed Vases and Felicia
The Romantic Crystal Footed Vase series at 35 cm with 24K gold accents represents the apex of the Klimchi range at Thomas Goode India — formal decorative vases combining the handmade Bohemian crystal tradition with gold detailing, at the scale required for the formal dining table or mantelpiece. Two variants are available alongside the Felicia Romantic Crystal Footed Vase, also at 35 cm with 24K gold. At this scale and with the gold accent detail, these pieces occupy the same formal decorative register as the Moser crystal pieces, sharing the same Bohemian Czech Republic crystal heritage while offering a different formal vocabulary.
Eternity Vase
The Eternity Vase at 11.5 cm is the most compact decorative piece in the Klimchi range — a small-format vase suited to the desk, the bedside, or as part of a grouped decorative arrangement on a shelf or console. At this scale, the integral colour quality of the Bohemian glass becomes particularly concentrated: the small volume of glass holds its colour with exceptional depth, and the handmade character of the piece is visible in its form and wall quality. The Eternity Vase functions as the collection's most accessible gifting format is a compact luxury object that communicates material quality clearly.
Shadows Espresso Cup
The Shadows Espresso Cup in Cloudless Clear, available as a set of two, is the Klimchi range's most functional daily-use format. A crystal-clear glass espresso cup, the Shadows piece applies the Bohemian glass tradition to the espresso service in a format that is simultaneously contemporary in aesthetic and traditional in material. It sits in the Coffee Cup & Saucers collection at Thomas Goode India alongside the Lustre Espresso Cup and the Herend Apponyi Blue espresso cup.
Hobnail Bowls
The Hobnail Bowls in Light Blue, Light Green, and Dark Green extend the Hobnail collection into the bowl format. The Light Blue and Light Green bowls at 11.5 cm and the Dark Green bowl at 23 cm provide decorative and functional serving bowls in handmade Bohemian coloured glass — an alternative to the porcelain and bone china bowl formats dominant elsewhere in the Bowls & Dishes collection, and a material contrast that produces a different visual character at the table.
Klimchi and the Bohemian Crystal Tradition
The Czech Republic's Crystal Valley region — encompassing Kamenický Šenov, Nový Bor, and the broader Liberec-Ústí corridor — is the most historically significant glass production region in Central Europe and one of the most important in the world. The tradition of Bohemian glassmaking dates from the medieval period, but the distinctive character of Bohemian crystal — its clarity, its cutting tradition, and its coloured glass vocabulary was established in the 17th and 18th centuries, when Bohemian glassmakers pioneered a potash-lime glass formulation that surpassed the Venetian soda glass tradition in clarity and brilliance.
By the 19th century, Kamenický Šenov was one of the premier glassmaking cities in Bohemia — a centre of both production and design whose workshops supplied glassware to European courts, luxury houses, and international exhibitions. The factory whose kilns Klimchi uses today was built in 1905 at this same address, by engineers from Paris, and has been in continuous use for glass production since. This physical and craft continuity gives Klimchi a material heritage that very few contemporary glass brands can demonstrate.
Within the Thomas Goode India collection, Klimchi represents the contemporary strand of the Bohemian crystal tradition — complementing the Czech Moser crystal centrepieces, which represent the Bohemian tradition's most opulent formal expression, with a range of coloured and contemporary pieces that bring the same heritage to the table in a more accessible and varied format.
Gifting Guide
Klimchi pieces at Thomas Goode India are particularly suited to gifting for housewarming occasions, personal birthdays, and festive gifting where a colourful, contemporary luxury glass object is the intended message. The Drama Vases are the most impactful single-piece gifts from the range — a 32 cm Amethyst or Aquamarine Drama Vase makes an unmistakable impression. The Egg Vase sets of three colourways gifted together constitute a coordinated display of Bohemian coloured glass in the compact egg form. The Marika water glass sets of six provide a complete practical table luxury gift.
For those assembling a contemporary table from the Thomas Goode India collection, the Marika water glasses alongside the 1882 Ltd Lustre dinner plates and the Hering Berlin Aura plates create a fully contemporary luxury table in which Bohemian handmade glass, British studio ceramics, and contemporary German fine porcelain share the aesthetic.
To Shop Klimchi Bohemian Crystal Glassware, Vases & Drinkware Online in India, the full collection is available at thomasgoode.in/collections/klimchi, with personalised assistance from the Thomas Goode India team.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Klimchi and where is it made?
Klimchi is a premium Bohemian crystal glassware brand founded in 2019 by Lukáš Klimčák, producing handmade glass pieces at a factory in Kamenický Šenov in the Czech Republic's Crystal Valley region — a glass production centre with an unbroken tradition dating back centuries. The factory itself was built in 1905 by the same French engineers who constructed the Eiffel Tower. All Klimchi glassware is handmade in Kamenický Šenov using lead-free soda-potassium glass with integral colour additives for depth and consistency.
What is Bohemian crystal and why is it considered a luxury standard?
Bohemian crystal is glass produced in the Bohemia and Silesia regions of the Czech Republic, distinguished by its clarity, light brilliance, and the quality of its cutting tradition. The Bohemian glassmaking tradition dates from the medieval period and reached its definitive form in the 17th century, when Bohemian potash-lime glass surpassed Venetian glass as the dominant European luxury tradition. The Crystal Valley region of the Czech Republic — where Klimchi is produced — has been considered the cradle of world-renowned glass manufacturing for centuries.
How does Klimchi add colour to its glass and why does it matter?
Klimchi adds colour additives directly to the glass batch before melting in the furnace — not as a surface spray, paint, or coating applied after forming. This means the colour is integrated throughout the full depth of the glass. A Light Green or Amethyst Klimchi piece carries its colour all the way through the material, producing a depth and luminosity that surface-applied colour cannot replicate, and remaining fully coloured even at a chip or cut edge.
What Klimchi collections are available at Thomas Goode India?
Thomas Goode India carries: Marika water glasses in Light Green, Citrine, and Light Blue at Small (9.5 cm) and Tall (14 cm) formats, individual and sets of six; Drama Vases in Amethyst and Aquamarine at 32 cm; Egg Vases in Lilac, Amber, and Light Blue Hobnail at 23 cm; Romantic Crystal Footed Vases and Felicia Romantic Footed Vase at 35 cm with 24K gold; Eternity Vase at 11.5 cm; Shadows Espresso Cup in Cloudless Clear set of two; and Hobnail Bowls in Light Blue, Light Green, and Dark Green.
What is the Hobnail technique in glassware?
The Hobnail pattern is a surface technique that presses regular raised circular bumps into the glass surface, producing a tactile texture that scatters light across its nodes in a softer, more diffuse pattern than smooth glass. It is one of the oldest techniques in Western glassmaking, producing both a visual and a tactile quality. Klimchi's Hobnail pieces — Egg Vases, Hobnail Bowls — apply this technique to integrally coloured Bohemian glass, combining the depth of colour with the distinctive surface character of the Hobnail tradition.
How should Klimchi glass pieces be cared for?
Klimchi glass pieces should be hand-washed in warm water with mild liquid detergent and dried immediately with a soft lint-free cloth to prevent water marks. The Romantic Crystal Footed Vases and Felicia Vase with 24K gold accents should not go in a dishwasher, as alkaline detergents and high temperatures will erode the gold detailing. The Marika water glasses, Hobnail Bowls, and Drama Vases can be hand-washed normally. Store glass pieces on a stable, cushioned surface and handle by the body rather than by any projecting rim.