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Luigi I
Luigi I

Luigi I

Object NameChandelier
Artist Petr Novotný (b. 1952)
Artist Borek Šípek (b. 1949)
Maker Driade
Studio Ajeto Glass Factory
Made FromNon-lead glass, electrical fittings
Date1989
Place MadeCzechoslovakia, Novy Bor
TechniqueBlown and hot-worked, assembled
SizeOverall H: 88 cm
Accession Number91.3.29
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewBen W. Heineman Sr. Family Gallery of Contemporary Glass.
Interpretive Notes
Functional objects, such as this chandelier, are displayed on this platform with nonfunctional objects, such as the chair by KeKe Cribbs. Design is meant to be functional, the object’s use is clear (this is a lighting fixture), and design objects are most often made in a series. Studio craft may be functional or nonfunctional, the object’s use may not be clear (a chair that cannot be sat on), and craft objects are most often one of a kind. The intention of craft is fundamentally different from that of design: craft vessels and objects may be used, but their purpose, like art, is to stimulate emotion and intellect, to evoke memories, thoughts, moods, and feelings.
Physical DescriptionColorless, opal, transparent green, cobalt, amber, red non-lead glasses; "blossom" elements blown into optic rib mold, hot applications, other elements free blown and hot-worked, assembled. Chandelier in shape of bouquet of six stylized flowers hanging downward; each flower comprised of opal cased in colorless optic rib-molded "blossom" with three-lobed body, attached to rondel of transparent colored or colorless glass (2 colorless, 2 amber, one red), in turn attached to hollow ribbed twisted green stem with 3 applied small crimped leaves; flowers are attached with brass fittings to five large ribbed leaves with long straight solid stems (2 colorless, 1 amber, 1 blue, 1 green); all parts connected by curved tubular brass fittings; wiring is threaded through flower stems and fittings and meets at a brass ball suspended from a length of brass tubing; unsigned.
Provenance
Former Collection Urban Architecture - 1991
Frederick Carder
about 1912-1922
microscope
J. Klönne & G. Müller
about 1885
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Humberto Campana
2015
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Benjamin P. Moore
1983
lamp
1850-1869