Verona Murano Glass Flower Chandelier

I · The lineage

A tradition, still practiced.

Murano glassmaking is one of the oldest continuously practiced crafts in Europe. The technique of shaping molten glass into flower forms using hand tools — pincers, tongs, marvers — has existed on the island of Murano since at least the fifteenth century. What appears in the ceiling of a dining room today as an ornate glass chandelier is the same process a fifteenth-century master would have recognized: a rod, a furnace, a piece of glass, and hands.

The Verona takes that tradition and applies it at chandelier scale — a cluster of hand-blown glass flowers arranged in a radial formation around a central spherical orb. Each flower is shaped individually while the glass is still molten from the furnace; each takes approximately fifteen to twenty minutes to complete in the atelier. Twenty-four flowers per fixture, all hand-blown, all attached one at a time to the metal skeleton. This is not a fixture that scales quickly. It's a fixture that scales carefully.

II · The tones

Four solids, one mix.

Yellow — golden

Modern warm · Italian villa

Saturated golden-yellow — the tone of Tuscan afternoon light. Belongs in warm-modern interiors with walnut and cream, in Italian villa-style rooms, in hospitality dining installations where the fixture is expected to hold attention.

Green — olive

Botanical · Traditional

Deep olive green — the tone of Mediterranean groves. Belongs in traditional-modern rooms with warm-wood cabinetry, in classic dining rooms, in interiors that want a botanical anchor without going floral.

Blue — ocean

Coastal modern · Editorial

Deep translucent ocean blue — architectural rather than pale coastal. Belongs in editorial-modern interiors, in coastal-modern homes wanting to avoid beach-house clichés, in cool-toned dining rooms with white or grey palettes.

Red — ruby

French vintage · Bold

Deep ruby-wine red — warm and slightly amber. Belongs in French-vintage dining rooms with walnut and velvet, in bold-traditional interiors, in French-bistro hospitality installations that want warm colour temperature at scale.

III · The form

Radial cluster with a central orb.

The composition is intentional. Twenty-four hand-blown flower shades are arranged in three vertical tiers around a central metal skeleton — eight flowers to each tier, spaced at forty-five degree intervals. At the centre of the composition, at the visual heart of the fixture, sits a single hand-blown glass orb the size of a small melon. The orb is what pulls the eye — a solid volume in the middle of the delicate outward-facing flowers.

This is a form Murano ateliers have been building for centuries — a garden of glass around a central sphere — and it remains one of the strongest compositions in the Murano tradition. It gives the fixture visual weight without visual heaviness, colour without competing with the room's palette, and craft without ornament for its own sake.

IV · The scale

Two sizes, both statement-scale.

Both Verona sizes share the same 18.1-inch height. What changes is the diameter — 19.7 inches for the Small, 23.6 inches for the Large. Both are designed to work as the central architectural moment in a dining room, foyer, or statement living room.

Standard 19-inch adjustable chain. Custom lengths available at no extra charge for double-height foyers or vaulted rooms — write to support@stuberlighting.com with your ceiling-to-floor measurement and desired hanging height before ordering.

V · The craft

Considered, throughout.

Bulbs included.

The Verona ships with its full set of E14 warm-white LED bulbs at 3000K — the temperature that best reveals the coloured glass in its intended tone. 3000K is warmer than daylight LED, cooler than incandescent yellow; it's the residential-atmospheric standard for chandeliers where the fixture is meant to hold attention through the evening. Dimmable-compatible with dimmable E14 LEDs and a triac wall dimmer.

Heavy fixture. Reinforced box required.

The Verona is a substantial hand-blown fixture — twenty-four glass flowers plus a solid central orb add weight. Before installation, confirm your ceiling has a heavy-duty rated junction box or a ceiling brace. Standard drywall-only mounting is not adequate. A licensed electrician can verify or upgrade the box during installation; we recommend confirming this in advance rather than at installation day.

Assembly at installation.

The Verona ships with the metal skeleton pre-assembled and the twenty-four flower shades packed separately. Flowers attach onto the skeleton at installation — allow approximately thirty to sixty minutes for a licensed electrician to complete both the wiring and the flower assembly. Placement of flowers is intuitive; each attaches to a numbered socket on the skeleton.

Individual variation.

Each flower is hand-blown, one at a time — subtle variations in curve, colour intensity, and interior bubble pattern remain by design. Your Verona will be subtly different from photographs and from every other Verona produced. This is hand-blown work's signature; machine-pressed uniformity would signal a different production method entirely.

VI · Where it belongs

Rooms that want a garden overhead.