Traditional Absinthe Sugar Dish Rattan Bistro Bar Height Chairs Wooden underside

Wooden underside

Each piece is handmade in Indonesia – the birthplace of the rattan bistro chair

very few antique fountains have survived intact with their original glass bowl

there are so many antique accoutrements and ways to add sugar to absinthe

Traditional Absinthe Sugar Dish Rattan Bistro Bar Height Chairs Wooden undersideThis is a reproduction of an antique absinthe sugar dish. Small dishes like this typically sit on a caf bar or table and hold small pieces of sugar used in preparing an alcoholic drink, most often absinthe. Although other drinks used sugar, it was overwhelming absinthe where sugar was most used. By some accounts, it was frowned upon not to use sugar during the Belle Epoque in preparing the traditional French or Swiss method. The sizes of the dishes