During the Seventeenth Century, Bohemia, in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire, was the glass making capital of Europe Its seemingly endless forests gave the glass makers all the timber they needed to fire their ovens

In the Nineteenth century, Bohemia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire was one of the most important manufacturing centers for both glass and lead crystal It was here that Daniel Swarovski was born in 1862, the son of the owner of a small crystal-cutting factory