a prototype chandelier, Orrefors, 1960s.
Frame of white metal, hanging glass pendants with pressed decoration in various sizes across multiple tiers. Height 60 cm, diameter 52 cm.
Function not guaranteed.
A gift from the designer to the architect Maurice Holland, who curated an exhibition of Cyrén's chandeliers at NK Inredning in Stockholm, 1967.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Gunnar Cyrén: "In 1967, I held an exhibition of lighting, chandeliers. I knew that when you clean chandeliers, it's a lot of work and hassle. Therefore, I thought that one should try to do something where it was easy to remove the prisms, and then I came up with this trick of making a leaf with holes that sat on a hook. It was very simple. Then I really went for it and made a very large and dominant hook, I thought it should have character.
Now it got a bit too much character. The lamp became like a fruit bud, full of thorns. In a review, Ulf Hård af Segerstad wrote that 'they do not lack character' - that was actually an understatement. I made a more modest hook. These chandeliers ended up in various embassies and other ceremonial buildings around the world."