Saint-Louis Extravagance Gold Rim American Water Glass No. 1

The Saint-Louis Extravagance Gold Rim American Water Glass No. 1 is the largest stemware piece in the collection, proportioned for water service at a formal table. A fine 24-karat gold rim applied by hand traces the lip, adding a quality of formal warmth that makes each pour or presentation a small ceremony. It pairs naturally with the full Extravagance service for a complete formal table.

Every piece in the Extravagance collection is mouth-blown and hand-cut at the Cristallerie Saint-Louis in Lorraine, France. The 24-karat gold rim is applied by hand, gilded by artisans using gilding techniques practiced at Saint-Louis for generations. Saint-Louis is one of very few crystal houses in the world with the complete in-house capability to produce, cut, and gild a formal stemware service.

The Extravagance collection belongs to Saint-Louis’s lineage of gold-decorated formal services, a tradition reaching back through Thistle Gold and Apollo Gold Rim to the maison’s earliest court commissions. A fine 24-karat gold rim traces the lip of each piece — the most formal and celebratory register in the Saint-Louis vocabulary, reserved for occasions where ceremony is the point. The collection’s name announces its intention plainly: this is crystal at its most dressed, for tables that demand it. Established in 1586, Saint-Louis stands as Europe’s oldest crystal manufacturer, holding the title of Royal Cristallerie since 1781.