Farnese Two-Tier Twenty-One-Light Chandelier

The Farnese Two-Tier Twenty-One-Light Chandelier from John Richard commands a room with the quiet authority of a great architectural gesture — its two-tiered silhouette spanning thirty-seven inches across, layered in hand-blown glass and finished in champagne and gold leaf. Steel and acrylic work in concert beneath the surface, lending the piece a structural resolve that keeps its considerable presence from tipping into excess. Twenty-one lights animate the gold leaf in shifting registers of warmth, so the chandelier reads differently at every hour and from every angle. It is the kind of object a room is designed around.