Cocktail Glasses

Deluxe Two-Piece Martini Chiller — The secret of New York's coldest Martini is the specially-designed glass chiller, a V-shaped conical Martini glass that fits atop a balloon-shaped bowl. When the bowl is filled with crushed ice, it provides the most practical method yet devised for keeping the drink as cold as possible for as long as possible.

Serve icy martinis at your home bar. (It also makes a versatile sorbet or ice cream dish, and elegant caviar server). Holds 8-ounces. Each set includes 2 martini glass and chiller combinations and arrives gift boxed.

Tiki Lounge Glass — Zombie Alert! Keep the party surfin' with any number of retro spirituals like the Scorpion, Missionary's Downfall, Zombie, Blue Hawaiian, and Singapore Sling. Settle back with your 16-ounce Tiki Lounge Glass, rescued from Trader Vic's, string some tiki lights around the living room, spin some Don Ho records, and take a long, wicked sip of paradise.

Original Blue Bar Martini Glass — The Algonquin, a true New York landmark, continues a tradition of elegance that made the hotel the toast of New York's most quotable wits of the 1920s, including Robert Benchley who posed the famous question: "Why don't you slip out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini?"

Such luminaries as Benchley, Parker, George S. Kaufman, Ring Lardner, Alexander Woollcott, and Heywood Broun were frequent visitors to the Algonquin's Round Table for lunch, where they would exchange ideas and gossip over martinis, adroitly mixed in the Blue Bar and served in these glamorous 6-oz cobalt-blue glasses.

Private Lives Martini Glass — Celebrated playwright Noel Coward would never have been caught dead without a full Martini glass and a tailor-made tuxedo. Maybe that's why he always ended up at "marvelous parties."

Start with these elegant, swellegant 6-ounce Martini glasses (props in the Broadway revival of Private Lives), add shaker, jigger, ice, gin and vermouth — and turn the cocktail hour into an occasion, the scene from a Noel Coward play.

Peppermint Lounge Twist Martini Glass — The Peppermint Lounge, or The "Pep," on West 45th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in New York City, was the site where youth culture crossed generational and social boundaries in the early 1960s. They twisted to the music of the house band, Joey Dee and the Starliters, who had a number one record with Peppermint Twist and starred in the movie, "Hey, Let's Twist."

The dance craze inspired a tall, 9¼-ounce martini glass, as quirky as the Peppermint Lounge itself. The top of the glass has a classic and traditional design, but halfway down the stem, a “Z” pattern gives the glass a unique "twist." (These glasses are made thick and sturdy to survive the rigors of a Twist Party).

"Tippi" Martini Glass — Decorative artist and glass designer Goran Hongell was one of the pioneers of the Finnish glass tradition whose works were popularized in Europe throughout the 1950s. When Hitchcock discovered the martini glass at the Ritz Bar in London, he bought a dozen to take back to his California home, then used two of his own glasses in "The Birds" by putting them in the hands of "Tippi" Hedren.

The elegant design of the glass is classic in its simplicity and functionality. Its taper shape fits comfortably in all sizes of hands. (5-ounces, 3¼"). Crafted of lead-free crystal. Evocative of a cinematic goddess, circa 1963.

Anchor-Hocking Manhattan Glass — It's rumored that the first Manhattan Cocktail was shaken in 1846, by a Maryland bartender trying to revive an injured duelist. He mixed rye whiskey, sugar syrup and bitters. No word on the duelist, but one can assume he had a fighting chance. From there, the drink traveled to Manhattan, where, in the Gay Nineties, vermouth was substituted for syrup, paving the way for today's recipe.

The Manhattan pattern is made up of concentric ribs, influenced by the signature skyscrapers of New York. These ribs are pointed so that if you rub your fingernail across them, it will catch on each one and you can hear a little "ting." The 9-ounce Manhattan pieces are heavier than most cocktail glasses because of all the glass that goes into making the ribs. You'll be less nervous about using them around clumsy friends.