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The French Gothic architecture of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral inspired master glass designer Alison Berger to create this instrument of illumination. Evoking the 12th-century structure's flying buttresses, the fixture's winged armature holds aloft hemispheres of cross-cut glass. Lathe-carved from solid blocks of crystal and then hand polished, the thick, heavy domes play counterpoint to the solid brass frame's delicate arc – a vision at once fixed and fluid, strong and fragile. Viewed as an object in space, the silhouette creates a canopy of light overhead.
