Carlo Nason: Murano Glass Pendant, c.1970s

Carlo Nason was born on Murano. Not near the tradition - on the island itself, into a family that had worked the furnace for generations. By the 1960s, when he began designing his own lighting, he understood Venetian glass not as a material to be worked but as a language already fluent, waiting to be spoken differently.

What he said with it was architectural. The pendant lights he made across the late 1960s and 1970s were among the first to treat Murano glass as structure rather than ornament - built to hold light, to slow it, to make a room aware of where it was coming from.

This pendant, from around that period, carries that instinct. Two curved glass panels, hand-formed with a textured interior surface that catches light rather than releasing it cleanly, are mounted in a matte black powder-coated frame. The contrast is deliberate. Something ancient inside something spare. 

Professionally refurbished. Frame powder-coated. Glass panels in very good condition. Fully rewired to Australian electrical standards.

H 84 cm × W 20 cm × D 13 cm.