When American founder and designer Karen Feldman launched her Czech crystal company, ARTĚL, in Prague in 1998, she was a newly arrived expat with no contacts in the Czech Republic's centuries-old glassmaking industry—and didn't even have a phone. "I had a voice mailbox, which I called to see if a fax had arrived at the main post office, where I picked it up and sent a response," she recalls. From those pioneering beginnings, Feldman has built ARTĚL into an internationally recognized luxury cryst...
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