Indulging their passion for experimentation with materials and uncommon combinations, the designers have combined glass — the traditional Venetian artistic craft material — with leather and synthetic fabric Alcantara, forming a fine net that supports and encases the top of a large blown-glass diffuser. The new Stelle Filanti suspension lamp collection, also part of Venini Artlight, reveals innovative production while maintaining Venini traditions and style.

“The concept of transformation”, explain the designers, “was at the heart of our inspiration for this project. Studies of the material and experimentation drove us to search for new forms, contrasts and appeal. The starting point was a small octagonal scrap of natural leather. With clever cutting based on the manual art of découpage, we turned it into a sort of garland that unfolds in the air and acquires mass as it reacts to the weight and light of the diffuser.”