We’ve upgraded our travel hydration needs with the Owalas and Stanleys of the world, a colour-saturated cornucopia that we tote about like a marker of cool. At home, though, drinkware has continued to be in the realm of the quiet and the ordinary.
In tune with the beige-ification that has marked fashion’s “quiet luxury” phase of the past few years, drinkware has been content with being unassuming—till now. But call it the return of good old maximalism in fashion—what with Demna at Gucci bringing back the Tom Ford era of unabashed sexiness—but we are finally bidding goodbye to boring glassware. From sterile and monotonous glasses, trendy tablescapes today are overflowing with iridescent glassware so even your regular drinks at home come dressed to impress.
At Salone del Mobile 2025, Italian glassware brand Traga launched statement two-toned cocktail glasses that double as candlesticks or martini glasses that can be flipped to work as shot glasses. The same year, fashion’s favourite maximalist, La DoubleJ released a candy-striped Murano set that read dopamine dressing for your table.
Closer to home, candy-hued glassware is adding playfulness to our tables through curvy, colourful coupes and gem-toned carafes. There’s Muun Home’s pink and amber swirl glasses, Jaypore’s pastel carafe set and Rayt’s goblets in every colour of the rainbow to offer that much-needed glassware glow-up for your next at-home party.
Here’s our handpicked collection of 16 disruptively beautiful glasses that are not content being dinner-table sidekicks.
