You remember these glasses from your last trip to #France, I guess.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

And here's a video (in French) telling the story and showing the people and the factory via @whreq (it also explains the mystery of the number on the bottom https://hsnl.social/@whreq/113297874659983802

[schroedingershund@social.vivaldi.net]

@jwildeboer

Worth mentioning that theire iconic glasses (yep, that well known design is theirs) are also famous because of the special treatment during melting and forming which makes Duralex glasses almost unbreakable in common situations (dropping a glass from the tabletop will leave you with stains from the contained liquid but not with shards from the glass)

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@schroedingershund Yes, it's tempered, not annealed glass (and I mentioned that in a few replies https://www.onedayglass.com/annealed-vs-tempered-glass-difference/

[piiiepsbrummm@chaos.social]

@Maker @Gurre @jwildeboer

The founder:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hoof

The publisher:
https://www.dw.com/de/finis-germania-und-co-rechte-vordenker-und-ihre-verlage/a-39787337

I didn't find an article with the donations just now. IIRC it was more than five years ago.

[koalie@w3c.social]

@jwildeboer heh, for what is worth, when I looked at the site today, the first thing on display was a warning that due to demand the delivery was likely going to be impacted and they thank people for being patient!

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@koalie They are having quite a comeback and I am happy for them to get a lot of new customers

[caravantraveller@social.cologne]

@bascht @jwildeboer

Yes, the price is fine, but p&p is a bit much.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@caravantraveller you can also get them at local shops. @bascht

[caravantraveller@social.cologne]

@jwildeboer @bascht

Do you know any? Most shops carrying household goods have closed in this area.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@caravantraveller Manufactum has them. There's also intergastro in Dortmund that offers pickup https://www.intergastro.de/lieferung-cms-page.pickup And when you order for more than 89€ at Duralex, shipping costs become 0. @bascht

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

It seems they are getting a lot of orders in and a lot of glasses are running out of stock So be patient instead of upset, OK? They are working hard and still have a lot of problems to solve. I was lucky and was able to order one of the last measurement glasses https://eu.duralex.com/en/products/precisio-transparent-glass-measuring-doser

[jtwcornell91@hostux.social]

@jwildeboer for one thing, glass is a lot easier to clean! We have a bunch of glass food containers and the weak point is basically always the plastic lids.

[maker@secretbearsociety.org]

@PiiiepsBrummm @Gurre @jwildeboer thanks for sharing, gonna dive into that

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@Maker (It's now 16 years ago that Manufactum got sold. To deduct from what the founder did since then that Manufactum is somehow a right-wing infested company today is bit rich, IMHO. I don't buy there because I think they are overpriced and overrated, but not because I fear to get confronted with far-right stuff) @PiiiepsBrummm @Gurre

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

(and no, I am not a paid influencer. I am a person who likes to share stories about workers uniting though

[pvdrijst@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer
Ook bij Blokker te koop, zowel in de winkel als online, en ja de tussenhandel verdient er dan ook aan.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@pvdrijst Sure. Feel free to buy them wherever you can get them

[taichara@chirp.enworld.org]

@jwildeboer I need to find out the best/any way to get their stuff in Canada

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@taichara https://duralexcanada.ca isn't good enough?

[taichara@chirp.enworld.org]

@jwildeboer

I'd gone to see if I could order to support and saw the site linked didn't ship outside of Europe; I don't think that commenting I needed to find another option (which I did, as it please you) warranted snark from you, thanks.