From bubbles to cocktails, water to wine, everything tastes better when you’re drinking from the right glass, right? Luckily for us, there is a growing number of female designers and curators doing the legwork so we can lead the salutations. When it comes to raising the bar, here are the names that need to be on your radar.

Inspired by the organic architectural lines of Oscar Niemeyer, Cosima Swayze’s new Wave Glasses have a groovy sensibility to them. “I love that they feel elegant enough for a formal table but the wave brings an unexpected playfulness to them,” says the LA-based tablescape curator, who worked with Laguna B in Murano to create the collection. “You can feel the human touch behind each piece. I’m not interested in factory-made perfection – I love the little variations that come from something being made by hand.” She’s also designed them to be double duty. “I use mine as bud vases and small votives with a floating candle in some water – the shadow it creates at night is exquisite.”

Florence-based Bec Astley Clarke, aka The Italian Collector, is the woman the A-list has on speed dial when they’re looking for an impossible-to-find icon of design. Her latest discoveries are ’30s one-of-a-kind Prosecco coupes and wine glasses that she has sourced after a lengthy rummage around “a secret warehouse in Murano” (she’s got all the good contacts). “These glasses will never be found again, they are like precious jewels, each one hand-blown in soft colours of the ’30s to ’50s that are impossible to replicate today,” says Astley Clarke. “They are all individual pieces of art and that is what I’m looking for in everything I collect.”

Antique glassware, from £1,700 for a set of eight at The Italian Collector.

It’s no secret that Margherita Maccapani Missoni loves a quirky and few families have mastered the delectable art of living well quite like the Missoni family. Her fashion-cum-homewares brand, Maccapani, is a glorious combination of the two, and this autumn serves us the Daisy Glass. Named after the designer (whose name is Daisy in Italian) and produced by Murano legends Laguna B, tiny daisies have been created out of molten glass and applied to the tumbler with a craquelé finish. “The right amount of liquid has to fit in them,” says Maccapani Missoni. She suggests Champagne and cocktails.”

Coming soon to Lagunab.com.

Creative director Anna Jewsbury has a non-negotiable with her glassware: “It has to make you look twice.” The designer’s Thaw glasses, crafted entirely from recycled sources, such as discarded bottles and window glass, certainly meet the brief. Arriving in acid green and tomato red, they carry the same unexpected identity as London-based Jewsbury’s jewellery collections. “Our latest pieces are becoming increasingly sculptural [as] we’ve been playing with layers of glass, building up these almost tangled, organic forms where you can still see traces of something familiar and functional underneath,” she says. “I love the tension that creates – between an object you recognise and something that feels strange, fluid and almost alive.”

The Thaw glass, £370 for a set of two at Completedworks.com.

Does your glassware do disco? Sophie Lou Jacobsen’s does. Her ’70s-inspired Disco Aperitivo collection celebrates the golden hour when the Select, Campari and Aperol come out to play with each one adorned with dots of Swarovski crystals “My designs always feature small, surprising decorative details or affordances, that transform the ubiquitous experience of drinking from glassware into a special, delightful moment,” says New-York-based Jacobsen. “The balance between function and decoration, restraint and whimsy is always a delicate one, in order to create something that feels entirely new and, at the same time, as though it’s always existed.”

Disco Aperitivo glasses, from £160 at Sophieloujacobsen.com.