Counterweight Chandelier

Inspired by Galileo’s gravitational pulley studies from the early 1600s, Alison Berger’s Counterweight Chandelier is crafted from a series of crystal wheels, weights and hand-blown pendants. Each of these elegant components can be raised and lowered to create various visual configurations, qualities of light and shadows. This chandelier, like all of Alison Berger’s designs, is blown in her Los Angeles atelier and annealed for several days before being finished by hand. Each is truly one of a kind.

The crystal in all of the Alison Berger Glassworks collection is hand blown. The process itself uses no molds or form constraints to shape the piece. Each fixture is a unique piece of functional art. The material qualities of this process will sometimes result in small air bubbles and actual tool marks, which are desirable evidence of the artisanal process.

Counterweight Chandelier Size 1 - 17 diameter
Counterweight Chandelier Size 2 - 17 diameter
Counterweight Chandelier Size 3 - 14W x 14D
Counterweight Chandelier Size 4 - 15W x 12D
Counterweight Chandelier Size 5 - 20 diameter
Counterweight Chandelier Size 6 - 22 diameter
Counterweight Chandelier Size 7 - 27W x 12D
Counterweight Chandelier Size 8 - 24 diameter
Counterweight Chandelier Size 9 - 24 diameter
Counterweight Chandelier Size 10 - 28W x 15D