Carlo Nason Pair of Murano glass wall lamps

Carlo Nason grew up with his family’s vetreria attached to his home in Murano. He was surrounded by the Venetian island’s florid history of glass ornamentation, but, after seeing a series of smooth, unadorned metal vases from Japan as a teenager, he became interested in the clean lines of Modernism. It was an interest that persisted. His designs are now housed in the Museum of Modern Art and the Corning Museum of Glass. 

This pair of wall sconces is characteristic of Nason’s work. There’s a modernist restraint, though highly sensitive to the behaviours of glass. Shaped in a sinuous curve, the glass feels in motion — as though it never quite set in Murano. Light moves through the sconces with similar fluidity: casting soft, refracted and rippling glows. There’s a quality of water to them — like sunlight dappling across the surface of a swimming pool.

H18.5 W35 D14cm 

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