About us

Cavillor Crystal is an authorized dealer of the Ajka Crystal Ltd., the biggest and one of the eldest crystal-producer in Central-Eastern Europe. We are certain that the products of this company with more than hundred years of experience reach the highest standards of quality.

Quality means for us customer satisfaction in the first line. Cavillor Crystal is committed to its aim of offering the finest crystal products available today. Each piece is individually handcrafted to provide a permanent design of impeccable detail, that will provide its owner timeless elegance.

Cavillor Crystal is member of the AlaCarteNet Group that is specialised in conducting international commerce.

About Ajka Crystal

The company, one of the biggest in Central Europe produces unique, handmade pieces of glass art representing unsurpassed quality and timeless beauty. The company is proud to note the biggest international crystalware brands among its customers: Swarovski, Rosenthal (Germany), Royal Doulton, John Jenkins, Dartington (UK) Williams-Sonoma, Tiffany, Bloomingdales, Lenox, (USA) Hoya Glass, Sasaki Co. (Japan). The circle of these sophisticated buyers above serve as a guarantee for the high quality of Ajka Crystal products.

Facts - 2002 Ajka Crystal Ltd. Turnover: USD 30 m Employees: 1150 40000 products in portfolio

Customer basis: USA 30%, Ireland 25%, Italy 22%, GBR 11%, Germany/Switzerland 5%, Japan 3%

Company history - Table of honours

1878	A glassworks of a new type - a factory was established in Hungary: Bernát Neumann's glass factory at Ajka. The enterprise first appeared in the report drawn up by Hungarian Chamber of Commerce in 1879 after winning the bronze medal in an exhibition held at Szekesfehervar.
1888	According to the catalogue of the National General Exhibition held in Budapest in 1885 Bernat Neumann's Ajka glass factory, then employed forty workers and a steam engine; its honours thus far amounted to the bronze medal won nine years before. At hte 185 exhibition the factory displayed "everyday and cut glassware" for which it won gold medal. The company was also awarded a grand prix de l'exposition for good competitiveness and progress. Judging from a wineglass from the Neumann period and from items in the collections of Budapest's Museum of Applied Arts, the factory in the 1880s also made high quality enamelled, cut and chased gilded and iridescent glassware, as well as red glassware and table glass. From the technical point of view these pedastalled glasses, wineglasses, bottles and table sets were on the highest level of the glassware of the period, surpassing the Bohemian and German quality and exhibiting the influence of the Historicist, Neorenaissance and Oriental styles.
1891	Neumann's company was taken over by the industry mogul Kossuch who has already owned a number of glass factories by that time. By 1891 Kossuch's firm had wide experiences home and abroad. It has participated at the world exhibitions held in London in 1892, in Vienna in 1873, in Paris in 1878 (silver medal) and 1900, and in St Louis (USA) in 1904 (gold medal). It Hungarian successes included a gold medals at the 1876 Szeged, 1879 Szekesfehervar, the 1896 Millennial and the 1904 Veszprém exhibitions.
1920	Besides applied arts considerations, the management of the factory is devoting special attention to Hungarian type forms, and to sets in select taste. The series of design is the most varied possible. In this respect the liqueur and long-necked glassware stand out virtue of the variety of forms and functional simplicity. The collection mentioned even received the attention of Edward,Prince of Wales who purchased a set during his 1935 visit to Budapest.
1943	The journal Hungarian Applied Art published a photograph of a jasper glass vase made by the Ajka factory and exhibited at the 1943 exhibition. For this work the applied artist Zoltán Eleod received a certificate of recognition. Eleod's activity was on an especially high level both artistically and technically. His glass objects showed the success of the functional trend in Art Deco, combined with an individual, inventive technical versatility. The characteristic type of 1930s product is the cocktail glass exhibiting a combination of black and colourless, transparent glass, with a finely shaped bowl embellished with doubly curved cone-shaped, finely delineated, cut motifs.
1950	In the 1950s and 1960s, in addtion to blown, coloured aquamarine, amber amethyst and smoke-coloured goblets and mass-produced glasses, the popular so-called tube glasses and colourless, transparent cut glass, the production of lead-glass was started. New compositions were applied, for example matt, rosy ornamentation, as well as traditional motifs, such as the pinwheel with its special light refraction and Sudeten ornamentation, with rich, lace-like cutting, featuring the baccarat star as a central motif.
1970	From the 1960s the chief designer of Ajka is the applied artist Ms. Magda Németh , who has worked in Ajka since 1959. She is a master of sets of dishes suitable for large-scale factory production, functional, yet highly decorative. Her spun-glass sets are outstanding.
1990	The latest experiment is being made with two-layer (überfanglich) glass. In contrast to Bohemian commercial laminated glass which imitates 19th century souvenir glasses, Magda Németh is working on geometric forms and ornamental patterns fully appropriate to both material and technique. In this respect she follows an individual course, even by international standards.
2000	Looking at the products of the last decades, Ajka has established design of craftsmanlike quality, hallmarked by the name of Tapio Wirkkala, thanks mostly to the efforts of Magda Németh- This is a rather great achievement, since the factory is trying to follow a path determined by its orders.
2004	Ajka Crystal introduces its pate de verre and cameo glass products on New York Tabletop Show.

The factory at Ajka has been characterized by technical variety and flexible parallel application of hot and cold techniques ever since its foundation: from iridescent wineglasses of the 1880s to the laminated glass of today all techniques have been characterized by professional execution and, in the last decades, by special fine designs, bringing more and more recognition abroad.