What Baccarat is known for
The crystal of kings since 1764 — Harcourt glasses, red-box chandeliers and Lorraine savoir-faire. First crystal oven went into operation in 1816; Baccarat received its first royal commission from Louis XVIII in 1823.
Baccarat began in 1764, when Louis XV authorized a glassworks in the Lorraine village whose name it would carry to every palace on earth. Crystal came in 1816, and with it the commissions that built the legend: Charles X's service in 1823 opened the royal ledger, and the Harcourt glass of 1841 — six flat-cut facets on a hexagonal foot — became the most durable design in tableware history, chosen by popes, presidents and the Élysée without interruption.
The red boxes carry the wider empire: chandeliers that lit the Dolmabahçe Palace and tsarist Russia (the house once ran a furnace shift purely for the Romanovs), stemware services deep enough to name eras, and the Zénith chandelier in red crystal as the modern flag. Two hundred sixty years of Lorraine savoir-faire include a Meilleurs Ouvriers de France density no rival matches.
The Paris maison at Place des États-Unis — now flagship, museum and restaurant — stages it all in mirrored theater. Baccarat remains the word French uses for crystal when it means the best.
How ORBIS reads this city
Best for — Harcourt crystal glasses and red-box chandeliers, crafted since 1764
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