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Fluxus chandelier

Fluxus, a wavering Murano glass sculpture, is the result of the cooperation between designer Karim Rashid who designed the Knit – individual hand-made glass element – and Artist Michela Vianello. The new artwork made for Italian lightning designers Andromeda is a swinging – illusory – sculpture with an expression of motion.

Flexus covers a surface area of 60m², using 80,000 handmade glass Knit elements in 5 colours, 6000 kg of glass, steel and technology. The structure consists of mirrored hand shaped metal tracks, creating a perpetual sense of an unfinished spiral movement. Running on these tracks are fine crossbeams to which the Knit elements are anchored, attached one by one by means of a technical device created to an original Andromeda design.

The lighting is provided by 5000 punctiform halogen lamps distributed in a network across the internal surface of the wave. Two years of research, seven months of development process were necessary to define a new environment where art, design and the highest manual skills dialogue.

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