A Cascading Chandelier Makes Us Want to Splurge
A touch of glass inspires Tracy Glover Studio’s fully customizable Rain chandelier.
Photo: Courtesy Tracy Glover Studio
With a glass-blowing education that extends from Rhode Island School of Design to Dale Chihuly’s Pilchuck Glass School and a 13th-century Belgian convent’s crystal factory, Tracy Glover’s way with her chosen medium mingles centuries-old Venetian traditions with a clean Scandinavian aesthetic (her mother is Finnish), all informed by the interplay of light on water observed while rowing the river near her home at dawn.
Our choice for tripping the light fantastic in high-country homes this year, the new Rain chandelier from her Pawtucket, Rhode Island, studio further illuminates her mastery of the craft. The fixture’s 57 handblown-to-order, foot-long glass cylinders, 16 of them fitted with dimmable LED bulbs, cascade in a gray-to-clear ombre shower, each terminating with an uneven lip to mimic a raindrop’s splash. Tracy Glover Studio’s Rain chandelier is fully customizable; shown with round black-oxide canopy, 36” dia., $32,000.
