New drinking glasses may seem like a simple purchase, but the range is enormous. Are you going for small water glasses, spacious long drink glasses, smooth glass, or a striking relief?
By determining in advance what you primarily want to use the glasses for, choosing becomes a lot easier.
What will you use the glasses for?
Start with the most important thing: what do you usually drink?
For water, juice, and smaller soft drinks, a tumbler is a versatile choice. Do you often drink larger cold beverages or like to use ice cubes and fruit? Then a taller long drink glass might be more practical.
Do you regularly drink tea? Then you can also look at special tea glasses with a handle.
Choose the right size
Not every drinking glass has the same capacity. Even glasses that look approximately the same in photos can differ significantly in size.
Within Bricard Ronda, you can see this clearly. There are compact tumblers, while the taller Ronda long drink glasses have a capacity of 275 ml. The Ronda tea glasses with a handle have a capacity of 250 ml.
Therefore, always look at the capacity when comparing different models.
Smooth, organic, or ribbed glass?
Besides the size, the design largely determines how a glass looks on the table.
Smooth transparent glass is easy to combine. An organic shape makes a glass more playful, while a linear relief provides a more pronounced structure.
Within one collection, you can sometimes even choose from different finishes. For example, with Bricard Ronda, you have Ronda, Ronda Lines, and Ronda Frozen.
This way, you can choose the same type of glass in the look that best suits your dinnerware.
Consider your existing dinnerware
Your drinking glasses don't have to have the exact same style as your plates. A little contrast can be beautiful.
For example, if you have very simple dinnerware, ribbed or structured glasses can add extra detail.
For colorful or decorated dinnerware, transparent glass can provide balance.
Buy glasses that you can supplement later
If you want to use multiple types of glasses, it can be useful to choose a series in which different models are available.
You can start with, for example, water glasses and later add long drink glasses or tea glasses.
This way, you don't have to replace all your glassware at once, and you can still gradually build a cohesive collection.
Combining tumbler and long drink glass
One of the easiest combinations is a tumbler with a long drink glass.
For example, use the tumbler for water and the taller glass for soft drinks, juice, or another cold beverage. Because both models have a different size, it is immediately clear which glass is intended for what.
When both come from the same series, the table setting remains calm and cohesive at the same time.
How many drinking glasses do you need?
That depends on the size of your household and how often you entertain guests.
Sets of six are practical when you regularly sit at the table with multiple people. If you want to use different types of glasses, you can, for example, combine a set of tumblers with a set of long drink glasses.
This way, you have enough glassware for both daily drinks and an elaborate dinner.
Finding drinking glasses that suit you
Ultimately, the best drinking glass is the one that suits what you drink and the look you like.
When comparing, pay special attention to size, capacity, shape, and structure. If you want to combine different types of glassware, also check if multiple models are available within the same series.
View the drinking glasses and Bricard Ronda collection at TEKZEN and gradually build your own glass collection.