Miroslav Havel (26 May 1922 – 5 September 2008) was the chief designer for Waterford Crystal.[1][2]
Born in Držkov, Czechoslovakia, he trained as a glass craftsman in Železný Brod and in the Academy of Art and Industrial Design ("Umprum") in Prague. During his study at Umprum, he interned in a glass factory in Světlá nad Sázavou owned by Karel Bacik. Bacik, who was losing control of his business as the Communist takeover progressed, migrated to Ireland, made plans to set up a glass factory there, and in 1947 sent for Havel to supervise the technical aspects of the factory.[3]
There had been a glassmaking factory in Waterford in the previous century, but as nothing was left of that tradition, Havel created a production process from scratch, recruited skilled craftspeople from traditional glassmaking areas of Europe, set up training and apprenticeship programmes for Irish personnel, and designed new product ranges. In these product ranges, Havel attempted to reestablish continuity with the glassmaking tradition of Waterford City (Havel visited the National Museum to make detailed drawings of their collection of original Waterford glass), while serving the needs of contemporary consumers and working within the constraints of modern factory production.[3]
^Weber, Bruce (26 September 2008). "Miroslav Havel, a Glass Master, Is Dead at 86". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
^"Miroslav Havel". The Daily Telegraph. 24 September 2008. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
^ abBrian F. Havel, Maestro of Crystal, Currach Press, 2005
MiroslavHavel (26 May 1922 – 5 September 2008) was the chief designer for Waterford Crystal. Born in Držkov, Czechoslovakia, he trained as a glass craftsman...
1947 with Bacik's fellow countryman and former intern, the designer MiroslavHavel. A glass-cutting machine began operation for apprentice work in August...
Republic 2012 Valery Gurov Russia 2012 Peter Gvozdjak Slovakia 2012 MiroslavHavel [de] (†) Czech Republic 2012 Christopher Jones [it] United Kingdom...
notation to describe chess moves. MiroslavHavel 1st Prize, Zlata Praha 1910 This example shows a problem by MiroslavHavel. The key 1. Bc5!! gives a flight...
ie. Retrieved 24 June 2023. Brian F. Havel, Maestro of Crystal, Currach Press, 2005, biography of MiroslavHavel, a glass designer who worked with Bacik...
incumbent President Václav Havel in the second round. The arrest of an opposition candidate, Miroslav Sládek, was criticised by Havel's opponents. President...
Parliament, with Václav Havel emerging as the winner. The election was complicated only by attacks of Republicans against Havel and by bomb threat to the...
was elected speaker of the federal parliament on 28 December and Václav Havel the President of Czechoslovakia on 29 December 1989. In June 1990, Czechoslovakia...
and architects were Jiří Němec, Václav Benda, Ladislav Hejdánek, Václav Havel, Jan Patočka, Zdeněk Mlynář, Jiří Hájek, Martin Palouš, Pavel Kohout, and...
Václav Kopecký Jiří Štrébl as Václav Nosek Jiří Havel as Jan Šrámek Jiří Čapka as Adolf Procházka Miroslav Babuský as Jan Jína Vilém Udatný as Ivo Ducháček...
Tomek, Miroslav (23 October 2019). "Před 40 lety skončil proces proti Výboru na obranu nespravedlivě stíhaných. Mezi odsouzenými byli Uhl i Havel". iROZHLAS...
Václav Havel (1968) Not given (1969) Eugène Ionesco (1970) Peter Huchel (1971) Sławomir Mrożek (1972) Harold Pinter (1973) Sándor Weöres (1974) Miroslav Krleža...
for most of the first decade of the Czech Republic's existence. Václav Havel suspected KSČM was still an unreconstructed neo-Stalinist party and prevented...
Communism, and argued vehemently in print with fellow Czech writer Václav Havel, saying, essentially, that everyone should remain calm and that "nobody...
served as the chancellor (director of the presidential office) to Václav Havel, while he was president. He went on to be elected as Senator for the municipal...
Global Information