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From bobèche to Rezzonico, the Italian names for the parts, techniques and styles of the Murano chandelier, explained for anyone choosing one.

A small blown-glass bird at a country auction turned out to be the work of Vistosi. Its story leads back through four centuries of Murano’s glass animals, to a question about horses that may never be answered.

In 1665 a French company was founded to break Venice's hold on the making of mirrors. The craft it set out to take had been guarded for centuries in Venice and on Murano, and workshops there still practise it by hand.

Why a statement chandelier is one of the few pre-sale investments that shapes how a home feels, and one you never have to leave behind.

How we rigged, assembled, and dressed a 3.6-metre Murano glass prism chandelier weighing 370kg — including the trickiest eyebolt of the job.