A tableware specialist selling porcelain, glass, crystal, cutlery, and decorated vintage porcelain. The business traces its history to 1702 and formerly held court-purveyor status.
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FEINEDINGE hand-casts contemporary porcelain tableware from its manufactory and shop on Margaretenstraße in Vienna, founded by Sandra Haischberger, producing small-batch collections like Alice and Cut in French porcelain. Customers can shop the full range online or visit the workshop in person during posted hours.
A family-run silversmith with a shop and workshop producing hand-hammered cutlery and tableware. Jean-Paul Vaugoin is the sixth-generation owner; the company was founded in 1847.
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An Austrian ceramics manufactory, hand-painting the green Grüngeflammt pattern and other freehand motifs onto earthenware made in Gmunden since 1492. Its Erlebniswelt pairs a factory shop with tours of the throwing and painting workshops on the Traunsee.
Marianne Födinger's workshop, successor to the Pesendorfer handcraft pottery, produces porcelain plates and cups decorated with green rims, scattered flowers and deer motifs for hotels and mountain huts. Custom hospitality tableware is made to order alongside the GMUNDNERmodern line.
Keramik Hallstatt produces functional pottery and decorative ceramics in Hallstatt, Austria. Its methods include wheel-thrown tableware and hand-modelled figures that undergo glazing and repeated firings during the making process. Workshop sales at Seelände 54 are separate from the old-town shop on Wolfengasse.
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Keramik Hallstatt makes functional pottery and decorative ceramics in Hallstatt, Austria. Its workshop history includes Gudrun Baudisch-Wittke's acquisition of the premises in 1946 and the handover of the business to Erwin Gschwandtner in 1977. The current business carries the Gschwandtner name while preserving that earlier ceramic-making connection.
The workshop describes tableware thrown on the potter's wheel, with individual figures modelled by hand. Repeated forms can involve a plaster mould made from an original model. After drying, pieces undergo a first firing before glazing and another firing; some receive gold decoration and an additional firing.
Workshop sales at Seelände 54 and the old-town shop on Wolfengasse are separate places with different opening arrangements. Check which one is operating when planning a visit, particularly outside the main season. The maker also notes that a small workshop cannot keep every piece in stock, although items may be made to order. For a matching set or a particular figure, ask about availability and production time rather than assuming the display covers the whole range.