How $13,000 Paperweights Are Made The Oldest Crystal Factory in France | Insider Business

Must get a paperweight to keep my email and pdfs from flying away.

Under my tutelage it only took my wife a month to become a good blower.

Chai Syria, that's where I'm from lol 😆

I've worked with a couple of paperweights. They were paid a lot more than that.

Tereible looking things.

60 workers can make 1000 pieces in a single day? Bullshit

'An expensive paper weight' is normally a euphemism for a useless waste of money. In this case it is also that. The irony

Just say glass

I see nothing that couldn't be done by Chines laborer.

It takes 10 years to be a good blower but the neighbors daughter learned it instantly when she turned 18 and became a cheerleader

Always been fascinated and would have loved to learn to blow glass and other glass work.

Why would I Pay 5000 for a paperweight when I can just use my left hand?!?!

Imagine if instead of buying a paper weight someone gave a poor family 13k. Wealth is literally destroying humanity.

I'll stay with ikea glass ware thank you ... art yes, but ... just stupid to buy.

Breathing glass dust made with led. Sounds like a very safe place to work your entire life without any protection equipment.

go outside, grab a nearby rock, there is your paperweight.

A rock does the same job for $13,000 less.

Lead. Foolishness.

do you need it? no
do you want it? absolutely not...
these things are still in business due to just one human nature, sense of superiority and exclusiveness... otherwise no one needs extremely expensive good for nothing artisan items..

Beautiful

Garbage. Future bongs wasted on trinkets.

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Only a few people know how because no one in their correct mindset would think another “person” would pay that much for a paperweight! Leave it to the French though!

I didn't find a single one of the pieces good looking to be honest 🙄

why not just buy a full auto rifle? its the same price, works as a paper weight just as good, and has added utility.

THIS is a good example of why rich people aren't all that well liked. The glass they produce is amazing, but holy shit, those prices!

Alien 1 - "What was the downfall of human civilization again?"
Alien 2 - "$13,000.00 paperweights..."
Alien 1 - "Oh, that's right..."

I HAVE A PAPER WEIGHT LIKE THAT WITH A FLOWER IN IT ITS GIVING ME SO MANY HOURS OF PICS WITH LIGHTS I LIKE TO TAKE ITS SO AWESOME

Rich people would spend their money on anything but taxes

well, they are still pieces available only to elites. couldn´t they bring their prices to more masses? while I respect the artistry and quality control, machinery and materials surely are not an argument to those astonishing prices they ask. After all, is safer to have them as decorative items instead of sipping a poisoned v.s.o.p. from them.

My paper weights are considerably older than any other out there! They are washed - by the river - stones! 😁

Whose office is subject to torrential winds that they even need a paper weight

all the lead in their wine probably why all the royalties are crazy idiots.

7;05 Crystal "was invented in England in the 17th century"
7;18 "glassmakers here (at Saint-Louis)accidentally created crystal"
Who knew history could change so much in 13 seconds?

Are these fair trade paperweights? /s

Id hope no one still drinks out of crystal glasses, lead leeches into stuff so quickly, wine leeches lead almost instantly.

My dad could do this in his backyard using his furnace no prob.

Perfection

Certainly works of art! Do people still buy things like this anymore?

This was so interesting. I'm so glad Hermes was able to buy and help this beautiful company and tradition stay in its roots.

I used to go to a little town called Rattenberg in the West of Austria, famous for its glass blowing and -cutting, every summer. It was quite magnificent to walk into the shops, see these beautiful, handmade pieces and, if you were lucky, you got to see someone making one right there in the middle of the shop. It's incredible to see how fast and precisely they can make these pieces of art.

I would gladly work with their scraps of glass!!! Easy. Send it to me, and I will use them in my simple glass work. What a gift!!!

And this explains why there are still hungry people in this world.

I'll take wealth inequality for $200, Alex. It's the daily double.

"One hundred years ago, only nobility and the wealthy could afford to buy Saint-Louis pieces. Today, they're sold arounf the world to hotels, cultural institutions, restaurants, and private collectors."
...The wealthy, then?

Cool

they need young clients, make bongs! lmao