Mazzega Mid-Century Modern Italian Murano Glass and Steel Chandelier, 1970s

This chandelier is composed of 5 blown glass bowls, the sculptural structure is in steel and wood. The historic Mazzega IVR glassworks was the architect, starting in the mid-1950s, of a profound artistic and conceptual renewal in the field of artistic glass production in Murano. From that time he collaborated with the artists of the Fucina Degli Angeli which included in his ranks a refined and cosmopolitan elite of the European art world of the twentieth century: from Marc Chagall to Pablo Picasso, from Giò Ponti to Georges Braque and Jean Cocteau, from Fulvio Bianconi to Carlo Scarpa.