Sphere table lamp

This blood orange spherical table lamp sports a design of many facets and reveals the thickness of the glass and elaborate angles. Alessandro Mandruzzato made this piece according to an ancient Venetian tradition. The hot working phase of the process, called sommerso, consists of dipping coloured glass into crystal: the material is blown into a mould to roughly define its shape and size. The object is then left to temper slowly in special furnaces for 48 to 72 hours, and finally modelled by hand with tools and powered grinders.