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Coloured glass, from Aarhus

Colour youcan seethrough.

Glass does not have a colour so much as it hands one on. We publish what each piece is made of, whether the colour runs through it or sits on its surface, and what it actually looks like under four different lights — before you buy it, not after.

See the glassHow colour is made here
An amber drinking glass on a pale oak table in low afternoon sun, throwing a long amber patch of light across the wood and a faint green patch onto the plaster wall behind.
Water Glass 250 mlAmber, through-colouredPhotographed at 16:40, late September

The same glass, four times

Four separate photographs, one per light condition. Nothing here is one picture with a filter over it — a filter would show you a colour the glass does not have.

How these were photographed
  • Water Glass 250 ml in amber, photographed under daylight: north-facing window, no direct sun, about 5600 k.
    DaylightNorth-facing window, no direct sun, about 5600 K
  • Water Glass 250 ml in amber, photographed under warm indoor: domestic tungsten lighting, about 2700 k.
    Warm indoorDomestic tungsten lighting, about 2700 K
  • Water Glass 250 ml in amber, photographed under evening lamp: one small table lamp at night, about 2200 k.
    Evening lampOne small table lamp at night, about 2200 K
  • Water Glass 250 ml in amber, photographed under backlit by window: bright window directly behind the object.
    Backlit by windowBright window directly behind the object

Where the colour is

There are two ways
to make glass coloured,
and they do not age alike.

One survives a decade of dishwashing. The other does not. Every piece here says which it is, on the card and on the page, before you get as far as the price.

Every one of the 43 pieces in this range is through-coloured. That is a deliberate limit, not a coincidence — it is why the range is small, and it is why nothing here comes with a warning about the colour wearing off.

Colour and light, in full
Two glass tumblers shown in cross-section: the left one is amber through the full thickness of its wall, the right one is clear glass with a thin pink surface layer that is visibly worn near the base.
Through-coloured
The colour is in the glass itself. Handling and dishwashing do not remove it, because there is no layer to remove.
Surface-coated
The colour sits on the outside. Repeated dishwashing and daily handling wear it, and we say so on every piece it applies to.
Hand-painted
Applied by hand, and the least durable of the three. We make no claim about how long a painted decoration lasts in a dishwasher.

Over about four minutes

The object stays still.
The colour does not.

This is the whole argument for buying coloured glass rather than a coloured object: what you are actually buying moves around the room all day, and it is never quite the same colour twice.

Colour Preview

See the colour in your light, not ours.

Pick the light you actually have at home, then pick a colour. What you get back is a photograph taken under that condition — not this page tinting an image to guess for you.

Step one — what light is in your room?
Step two — which colour?
Shown on

These are photographs, not a colour match

Screens do not show glass accurately. These are photographs taken under stated light conditions, not a colour match — the object will look different again in your own room.

  • Camera 60 cm from the object, lens at object height
  • Off-white plaster, pale oak surface
  • White balance set to the light in use. No colour grading applied.
Water Glass 250 ml in Amber, photographed under daylight — north-facing window, no direct sun, about 5600 k.

Water Glass 250 ml in Amber, through-coloured, under daylight.

North-facing window, no direct sun, about 5600 K. The colour runs through the glass, so it does not wear off the surface.

See the full specification for Water Glass 250 ml

43 pieces, DKK 105 to DKK 595

Glass to start with

All 43 pieces

What we have to tell you

Glass has four ways of going wrong. Here they are.

None of this is small print. Food contact, temperature, open flame and breakage are the four things that decide whether a piece of glass is safe for what you want to do with it, so each one has its own page and its own line on every product.

A wide windowsill holding coloured glass vases and a hanging prism, with low sun throwing their colours in overlapping patches across the sill, the floorboards and the plaster wall.

14 days to change your mind

Standard withdrawal form included, returned unused in its original packaging.

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2 years of complaint rights

The statutory right of complaint under Danish law, separate from and on top of withdrawal.

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Packed in two layers, in separate compartments

Glass does break in transit. Report it within 7 days and we handle it.

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Free delivery in Denmark over DKK 600

Rates for every destination we ship to are published in full.

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If you are still unsure

Tell us which way your windows face.

Colour behaves differently in a north-facing room than a south-facing one, and differently again under whatever lamp you switch on at six. Send us the room and we will tell you which colours hold up in it — including when the answer is none of ours.

Ask about a roomContact us

A one-off reply from a person. Not a subscription, and not a mailing list you have to leave later.

A dining table at night lit only by candles in coloured glass holders and one warm lamp, with colour pooling on the tablecloth.

Skt. Pauls Kirkeplads 9 A, st. 2, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark