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Jan Sylwester Drost
He lived in the years 1934-2024. From 1952 he studied at the Faculty of Glass of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wrocław, in the studio of Stanisław Dawski (diploma in 1958), from 1959 he worked as a designer at the Opta Mechanical and Optical Works in Katowice. In 1960, Drost began forty-year work at the Design Centre of the Ząbkowice Household Glass Factory in Ząbkowice Będzińskie, where he was the organiser, designer and design manager. He skillfully combined his technological knowledge of glass pressing with artistic sensitivity and in the 1970s he was granted a patent for a device for forming glass products by extrusion. As a result, vessels with a freely shaped upper rim were created. He was involved in inventing new technological solutions that improved the embossing of patterns. He also experimented with the machine processing of the outer surface of the stamping die and the inside of the cast iron mold, creating glass products with the textures of bark and tree rings, shells, shells, etc. Jan Sylwester Drost created both serial and unique glass, he is credited with popularizing pressed glass, which was previously treated by designers as a cheap product that did not require artistic craftsmanship during design.
The designs presented in the store confirm the contribution of Jan Sylwester Drost to the development of glass production technology and his enormous artistic achievements,
