Bronek Cholewka and his son Dominik Cholewka are carrying on the family tradition of glass decorating that started generations ago in his hometown ok Krakow in Poland: "My father was a glass cutter in Poland, and every school holiday I used to help him in the factory," says Bronek. "When I was studying glass technology and ceramics at university, I worked at the factory part-time and there I learned all the key skills passed on from craftsmen to craftsmen in our family."

 Forty years ago, Bronek started his own glass cutting workshop in Poland, his motherland, and emigrated to South Africa in 1981. "I worked in various companies in the country before I decided to open my own business in 1990 in Krugersdorp."

Bronek then opened Universal Crystal Glass, a family run business, where he combines everything into glass decoration.

"At the workshop we decorate ready-made glass such as trophies, shower doors and glasses, and we offer a unique service to the public, restoring crystal and unique glassware."

Bronek removes chips, fixes stems of glasses and many other things, so that the glasswork looks like it has never been tampered with.

 "We cover a wide area of decoration of glasses, and offer the best equipped glass workshop in South Africa that I know of."

 Bronek's wife, Wanda and his two sons, Damian and Dominik, and all involved in the workshop, as well as a small highly trained glass staff.

The furnace that Bronek works on, reaches a maximum temperature of 1,320 degrees Celsius.