Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created a range of glass lights for Swedish heritage brand Svenskt Tenn, marrying together a print by Josef Frank with Venetian glassblowing techniques.
Fusa is a collection of bulbous floor and table lamps, as well as table-top candle holders, made from Murano glass in a variety of jewel-like colours.
The collection includes Murano glass floor and table lamps, plus candle holders
The LED light element of the floor and table lamps is enclosed within a frosted glass hood, while the glass candle holders are contained within a globe-shaped clear glass surround.
The stem of each lamp consists of a totem of colourful glass pebbles stacked on top of one another. The murano glass elements contained within the frosted glass hood of the lamps are made in contrasting white or grey glass. Each piece is set on a round brass base, which also acts a dimmer for the user to adjust the strength of the glow of the electric lamps.
Each piece comprises a totem of coloured Murano glass with a bulbous hood
The colours and the swirling patterns in the Murano glass are Nichetto's "personal interpretation" of the Terrazzo textile design by Josef Frank, one of 160 prints by the prolific Austrian architect in the Svenkst Tenn archive. Frank's prints still form a core part of the design brand's collections.
"My first thought when I saw the print was that the stones in the motif looked exactly like a mosaic and murano glass. I highlighted the different...