{"product_id":"jt-kalmar-ice-pole-chandelier-with-murano-glass-vienna-c-1960s","title":"J.T. Kalmar: Ice Pole Chandelier with Murano Glass, Vienna, c.1960s","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eJ.T. Kalmar was founded in Vienna in 1881, and the firm has lit Austrian rooms ever since. For most of the twentieth century - through the late imperial period, the Werkstätte years, the post-war reconstruction, and the modernist Vienna of the 1950s and '60s - Kalmar produced the lighting that defined Austrian interiors. The company's signature in the post-war decades was a series of chandeliers and sconces built from \"ice glass\" - thick, irregular, frosted glass elements that resembled fractured ice or chunks of frozen water, cast in chrome or nickel armatures that held them like an architectural sculpture. The forms were christened with names that left no ambiguity: Eishaus, Eisglas, ice pole. They are some of the most distinctive lighting designs of mid-century Europe. Lit from within, the glass refracts light not through smooth surfaces but through the irregularities of the texture itself, so the light arrives at the room broken into a soft, snow-bright glow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis ice pole chandelier is one of them. The fixture hangs from a slim chrome ceiling rod and a small dome cap; below, two concentric tiers of vertical glass poles descend in rows, each pole a thick, irregular column of clear glass with the characteristic frosted, fractured surface; the glass is Murano, an Italian touch on an Austrian fixture, the collaboration not uncommon between the great mid-century European lighting houses. Lit, the chandelier reads as an iceberg suspended from the ceiling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eLight wear consistent with age. Glass in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eDimensions: H 0.56m × Diameter 0.32m\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48989098868963,"sku":null,"price":4900.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/5230\/2051\/files\/Screenshot_2026-05-19_at_10.37.11_am.png?v=1779151093","url":"https:\/\/theleopard.com.au\/products\/jt-kalmar-ice-pole-chandelier-with-murano-glass-vienna-c-1960s","provider":"The Leopard","version":"1.0","type":"link"}