Flowers have been on Venetian chandeliers for centuries, and they are still the hardest thing to do without sentimentality. The difference lies in the making. On Iris, the glassmakers form each petal so that the fine ribbing of the real flower shows, in several sizes spread through the whole piece.
Girasole is Italian for sunflower, and the flower is the whole subject. Ikebana by Romani Saccani Architetti Associati takes the Japanese art of arranging flowers, with long stems of blown glass sleeved over braided metal. Teo is built as a single flower, 95cm across and only 17cm deep, and Tea is drawn like a bouquet.
Antesia takes its name from anthesis, the botanist's word for the moment a flower opens. Autumn Leaves is a fall of hand-formed glass leaves on fine cables.