This artwork was deaccessioned in June 2022 and is no longer on view due to tenant finish changes by new owners of the Palazzo Verdi building.

Artist: Lonnie Hanzon
Year: 2007-2008
Dates: b. 1959, Pine, CO
Materials: Glass, steel, LEDs
Dimensions: 40′ x 13′

About Chandelier Chardin

The title of this chandelier is in honor of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest, paleontologist, and philosopher who discovered Peking Man. Chardin specifically conceived the idea of Noosphere. The Noosphere is represented by the geometric platonic solids imagery at the top of the chandelier, and evolves in to the highly organic shapes found at the bottom. The chandelier is made of steel, antique Italian chandelier parts, and contemporary glass pieces that have been cold worked, sand blasted, slumped, draped and torch worked. The chandelier is lit with small LEDs in the antique portion of the work. It is approximately thirteen feet at its widest point and descending from the ceiling close to forty feet.
The antique chandelier was discovered by Marjorie and Cynthia Madden on a trip to Italy in 1982, and remained in storage until being incorporated in to this new work. The Chandelier Chardin was designed by Lonnie Hanzon and fabricated by Bella Glass.

With an astute sense of visual dramatics, Lonnie Hanzon has amazed crowds around the globe with his highly original works. He has worked in Hong Kong, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Omaha, Denver, and Dallas.