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Originally conceived in silk, the decorations in this Collection are offered in Murano glass, with lighting systems designed to allow for long-lasting use. The glass is made in the Bottega Veneziana furnace and subsequently decorated by the skilled hands of Venetian artisans.

The lamps in the Oriente Collection are the result of the meeting of a cosmopolitan city like Venice, capable of moving skillfully between past, present and future and between East and West, and a brilliant man who built in Venice, in his Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei (now the Fortuny Museum), an entrepreneurial, cultural, commercial history among the most innovative developed between the 19th and 20th centuries.

In the first decades of the twentieth century great was the cultural ferment in Europe and the search for new means of expression involved all the arts. Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo in these years will try to reproduce the preciousness of 16th-century fabrics and velvets painted by Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, with modern techniques. He invented a special pleating applied to Chinese fabrics and silks and reproduced archaic Hellenic motifs on precious silks and velvets, as can be seen for example in the table lamp model Loredan-103.00

At the center of European cultural life, Fortuny's clothes would be worn by women who were transgressive and refined, emancipated and artistic, modern in their sensuality. D'Annunzio, a great admirer, called him the dyer alchemist, an expression of a decadent Venice but still filled with pride in its dyers, weavers, decorators, artisans still capable of great innovations within the ranks of a millenary tradition, a crossroads of contemporary stylistic and artistic knowledge and currents.

Great inventor of lamps that are still design objects today Mariano Fortuny implemented important studies concerning lighting, especially stage lighting, discovering that with the use of fabrics, more or less elaborate, an indirect and soft light and thus a diffused atmosphere could be obtained.

Hence the idea of reproducing ancient Venetian oil lighting lamps by bringing back to life the ancient Venetian Cesendello. The Cesendello was the typical Venetian lantern in the shape of an elongated cylinder within which oil was poured, which, by means of a wick, burned slowly, illuminating churches, homes and the darkest corners of the city from the Middle Ages until the 18th century.

The reproduction of Fortuny's designs on glass, accompanied by beautiful metal structures (iron and brass, according to a formula adopted by our craftsmen) arrives as an original proposal, a unique piece of furniture that will allow a piece of Venetian history and culture to be brought into homes. Example of a multi-light metal structure see