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- 8-light Musseline chandelier
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Delicate Transparency
Drawing from the classical baroque shapes and materials Stefan Rath creates a new interpretation of the glass arm chandelier. He takes the lightness of the classical glass arm chandelier and over-exaggerates this by using musseline-thin glass, more common with our stemware lines.
Marianne Rath, the daughter of Stefan Rath and sister to Hans Harald Rath designed another version of this design. She added low-curving arms and stretched the height of the fixture. This gives the delicate design a stronger presence and an elegant air.
The central spine is a polished brass rod. On it sits the main “cake”, the plate holding the chandelier’s arms. This is covered by a mirror-polished brass bowl with a matching glass.
The light bulb sockets are housed in delicately blown crystal vases with a softly curving rim.
The archives of our family report that the scarcity of precious metal between the world wars drove Stefan Rath to the so well-mastered material glass. Interestingly 200 years earlier a scarcity of metal coined just a simmilar design for the summer palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy at „Schloss Hof“.
