Bottega Veneziana specializes in the creation, reproduction and restoration of Murano glass Rezzonico chandeliers. We furnish your home with unique and exclusive chandeliers, created by the skilled hands of our glass artisans and custom made for you.
A Rezzonico Murano chandelier can radically change the appearance of a home's spaces through the play of color and light, helping to make the environment welcoming. The Rezzonico chandelier never ages, but acquires value over time, it becomes "Vintage": in it, aesthetics and functionality merge, it illuminates and furnishes making your home luxurious. An exclusive chandelier for those who want to create refined and valuable environments.
An example of how Rezzonico chandelier can help create fascinating atmospheres: the Caruso St. John Architecture Studio based in London and Zurich reclaimed and renovated a Swiss chalet in an effective combination of art, design and architecture. In the double-height hall stands our Rezzonico model RED : three chandeliers made in the Bottega Veneziana kiln that stand out against the original contrast created with the floor also in red and the large brown and white lozenges covering the walls and ceiling. A masterful antithesis effect where colors and styles contrast and complement each other, creating a retro and exclusive environment. The article was published in the prestigious Design and Architecture Magazine DOMUS.
The Murano glass chandelier still continues to be the reference for those refined designers who interpret the needs of their clients with contemporary taste and sensitivity. The furnace of Bottega Veneziana welcomes the new proposals of contemporary design by proposing the Rezzonico TESCHI chandelier in smoky gray glass that becomes the protagonist in the creation of a dark and minimalist refined environment.
The most famous Venetian chandelier in the world is made of crystal glass, with candelabra arms and decorated with multicolored pendants and flowers, and is called a ciocca. Giuseppe Briati was its inventor: his is the chandelier that majestically and sumptuously hangs with its 1,600 pieces in the Brustolon room in the Museo del Settecento Veneziano Ca' Rezzonico. This huge chandelier was built in 1730, when Murano glassworks were regaining share in the international market after the decline of the late seventeenth century, due to the departure for foreign countries of many master glassmakers and the reciprocal competition of foreign glass, especially Bohemian crystal. Briati was the main driving force behind that revival, with the production of crystal "in the Bohemian manner" and also thanks to the invention of his chandeliers, which would be called, precisely, "in the Briati manner."
Rezzonico chandeliers are made just as they used to be: the metal frame is forged by skilled craftsmen, covered and adorned with hundreds of pieces of blown glass in the voluptuous shape of flowers, fruits and animals in bright colors - such as the majestic STAR model - or with decorations in the finest 24Kt gold leaf - see the splendid EMAUS model.
In addition to the ceilings at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice, where the magnificent chandelier arrived in 1934, Rezzonico lock chandeliers can also be seen at Palazzo Mocenigo - Centro Studi di Storia del Tessuto, del Costume e del Profumo (Center for the Study of the History of Textile, Costume and Perfume ) - and in the Murano Glass Museum. Here among the two specimens, one "Chinese style" with candle-holding cups, flowers, leaves, bow and ball and cluster pendants, the other "column" of two floors by 24 arms with dolphin-head finial and four twisted columns, towers a Rezzonico chandelier with 60 arms on four floors, four meters high with a diameter of more than two and a weight of more than 300 kilograms. Composed of 356 pieces including basins, arms, basins, leaves, flowers, crest and bows, it was built in the late 19th century specifically for the Glass Museum by the best glassmakers and glassworks on the island, awarded a gold medal at the first Murano Exposition in 1864, and presented in 1867 at the great Paris Exposition.