DUTIES FREE Italian Sputnik chandelier with 51 hand-blown Murano glass tips in clear and black, brass frame. Late-XX-century inspired design. 10 E14 light points. Glass: 51 hand-blown Murano glass tips, clear and black Frame: brass-plated metal Set: 51 individually blown elements Dimensions: 55.10 in (140 cm) height with chain; 37.40 in (95 cm) height without chain; 41.35 in (105 cm) diameter Element dimensions: 10⅝–11⅘ in (27–30 cm) height; 1.55 in (4 cm) diameter Light points: 10 Bulb fitting: E14, 10 light bulbs (not included in the sale) There are Sputnik chandeliers that rely on the purity of a single material or a single color. And then there are pieces that choose contrast as their compositional principle — and do so with a precision that makes them immediately recognizable. This chandelier is one of those pieces: fifty-one hand-blown Murano glass tips, clear and black, radiate from a brass frame, forming a monumental silhouette where the dialogue between light and its absence becomes the very heart of the design. Hand-blown Murano glass, worked according to traditional technique, is the undisputed protagonist. Each tip is crafted individually by maestri vetrai, using the traditional method that produces that surface quality and visual lightness impossible to replicate industrially. The alternation between clear glass — which catches and multiplies light — and black glass — which absorbs and retains it — creates a visual rhythm of great elegance, one that shifts character entirely depending on whether the chandelier is lit or unlit.