Production & Lismore Crystal Essay

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Points of chapter to back up: Waterford Crystal is an influential historical brand in the world of interior décor and has become this way over time because of these factors: Production & Design (production & Lismore), Advertising (Cara Magazine, Aer Lingus), Language & Display, and, even though they were dormant for some time, have managed to regain their reputation and popularity recently because of status-aware customers and their attentiveness to the company’s well portrayed and long lasting image as a luxury market brand. Introduction to Chapter: Waterford Crystal is a well-known brand, a glassware company that produces high quality, hand-blown crystal products for use by its customers as tableware, gifts and interior décor. Since its …show more content…

Even so, the glassware manufacturer has still managed to regain and build its reputation up as though it had never left the glassware industry. In this chapter we will be addressing the disappearance of Waterford Crystal from the crystal market briefly while examining the influence the glassware giant had on it before hand and afterwards, while ultimately retaining its position as a luxury homeware brand despite it all. We will explore the presentation of the products to the public through advertisements in Cara Magazine and discuss them as a means for the company to cement Waterford Crystal’s image to the public as a high-class crystal producer for tableware, gifts and home décor, considering the partnerships and associations the company is involved within these advertisements and elsewhere and their roll in influencing this perception. This will all be looked at in addition to other factors such as the innovative, hand-crafted designer cuts that the company produces, with a close focus on the Lismore range, and how they enamoured customers the world over with their extravagant aesthetic and used it more recently in revival ranges to also reinstate their reputation as front runners in the trade. These factors helped the firm to create a lasting impression, so much so that it made their re-emergence in the 21st century appear as though they had never left. To …show more content…

Of course, the company fell into a decline and closed down in 1853 because ‘the excessive taxation and lack of capital had taken its toll on the business.’ However, the history of Waterford Crystal is briefly accounted in Lesley Jackson’s 20th Century Factory Glass, where it’s said that after almost 100 years of dormancy, Waterford Glass, a trial factory, was formed in 1947, and in 1950 ownership was assumed by the Irish Glass Bottle Company Ltd. who built another factory after that. Skilled glassblowers from Italy, Czechoslovakia and Germany were lined up to teach the workers and a newer, greater factory was built in 1960. Between 1951 and 1960 the company’s workforce grew by around 950 employees. In London, Waterford Crystal chandeliers were installed in Westminster Abbey in 1966, this was for the 900th anniversary dedication of the church. The Guinness family had paid for them. Other Waterford Crystal chandeliers also hang in Windsor Castle and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. It was during those years the brand became officially known as Waterford

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