The Venetian chandelier has a recognisable grammar: glass arms, a central column, cups, and flowers or leaves if the room can take them. The Rezzonico form, named after the Ca' Rezzonico palace, spreads flat and wide on open arms. Caesar is Multiforme's version in blown art glass, from a six-light at Ø70cm up to 21 lights, and Kia Ora takes the same form and fills it with colour.
V-Classic 800 sets out to be the Venetian chandelier in its most familiar form, and the maker says so. Simplicissimus 360 is the same thing with no flowers, leaves or crests. Masiero, outside Venice, comes at the city from its interiors: Nappe by Marco Zito takes its forms from the tassels that tie back the curtains in its palaces.
'Venetian' here describes the form. Where a maker states the glass is Murano, the piece is listed in Murano Glass Lighting. If provenance decides the purchase, read a Murano glass chandelier should come with a furnace you can name.
