This mesmerising space is The Crystal Dome at Swarovski Kristallwelten (Crystal Worlds) – the company’s museum and headquarters located in Wattens in Austria. The Crystal Dome was specifically designed to capture the feeling of being inside a crystal. There are 595 mirrors that cover the dome’s walls, creating a kaleidoscope of shifting shapes, reflections and colours, that gradually reveal hidden works of art…

In a highly publicised and much talked about event, French crystal house Baccarat presented an exhibition which featured reinterpretations of classic chandeliers by eight internationally renowned designers – Philippe Starck, Michele De Lucchi, Eriko Horiki, Jaime Hayon, Yann Kersalé,Arik Levy, Alain Moatti & Henri Rivière.

Exhibition took place at Palazzo Morando (Via Sant’Andrea 6) in a series of cascading rooms with dream-like scenery and soundscapes. My personal favourites were the chandeliers by Eriko Horiki who combined Japanese Washi paper with crystal; Jamie Hayon’s sweet little Candy Light and Philippe Starck’s quirky and highly conceptual “Marie Coquine” chandelier which was housed within an umbrella hanging off a support tripod structure on castors and counterbalanced by a boxing bag (WHAT? I know, it’s sounds crazy, but trust me – it’s awesome)…

Swarovski Crystal Palace on Zona Tortona was a breathtaking experience that I definitely will not forget in a hurry. Although I did expect to see a series of visually striking installations, the experience of seeing other visitors standing quietly in complete awe in each room was something which added to the experience and a created a collective hypnotic state.

Tokujin Yoshioka, Gwenaël Nicolas, Yves Béhar, Rogier van der Heide and Vincent van Duysen were commissioned to come up with a crystalline reinterpretation of the traditional chandelier…

hese beautiful images are from the installation by Tokujin Yoshioka – a glass window made up of 500 crystal prisms, which will be exhibited at MUSEUM. beyond museum in Seoul this May. Called “Rainbow Church”, the eight metre-high installation will create rainbows within the space as the light is refracted…