"Harry Nuriev collaborates with Baccarat for a unique reworking of the Maison's historic Zénith chandelier. On view at the Crosby Gallery until January 18th, 2026, and at Maison Baccarat in Paris starting January 20th, the project repositions the chandelier as a speculative object shaped by scarcity, memory, and reuse. Drawing on his concept of transformism, Nuriev inserts pens, jewelry, bottle caps, CDs, keychains, and more fragments of everyday life into the iconic crystal structure, proposing a future where the ordinary becomes precious."
"Nuriev approaches the chandelier as a carrier of cultural memory. 'The Zenith Baccarat chandelier becomes a messenger, carrying pieces of our present into an imagined future, where repurposing becomes a way of life sustained by whatever we once overlooked,' the designer shares. His intervention is not decorative but narrative, imagining a world in which crystal no longer exists, forcing future owners to substitute missing elements with whatever they can find. The result is a speculative archaeology of the present, where disposable objects acquire symbolic weight."
Harry Nuriev reworks Baccarat's historic Zénith chandelier into a speculative object that combines fine crystal with ordinary found materials. The installation is on view at the Crosby Gallery until January 18, 2026, and at Maison Baccarat in Paris starting January 20, 2026. Drawing on the concept of transformism, Nuriev inserts pens, jewelry, bottle caps, CDs, keychains, and other fragments into the crystal structure, proposing a future where the ordinary becomes precious. A visible metallic framework extends the chandelier's sculptural vocabulary and emphasizes its hybrid identity between functional lighting, installation, and emotional artifact. The piece reframes reuse as cultural memory, imagining substitution of missing crystals with repurposed elements.
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