The Corvina Molten Glass Wall Sconce is a single hand-blown glass disc mounted flush to the wall, and it keeps every mark of how it was made. A fine mesh texture runs across the whole surface — the weave of the mould, pressed into the glass while it was still molten. The centre has collapsed slightly inward where the bubble gave. The edges fold and pleat where the glass met resistance and buckled.
- Dimensions: ∅ 9.8″ / ∅ 25 cm
- Voltage: AC 110–240V
- Control: Wall switch Dimmable when fitted with dimmable G4 LEDs on a compatible dimmer circuit.
- Real Photo: The back of the shade — the side nobody styles
- Environment: Indoor · dry locations
Design & Materials
None of that was polished out. Most glassmaking is a process of erasing evidence — grind the seam, smooth the fold, make it look as though the object simply arrived. Lit, the texture does the work. Light passing through the mesh grain and the folded seams throws a rayed shadow across the wall behind it — a soft radiating pattern that changes with the shape of each individual piece. The disc glows unevenly on purpose: brighter where the glass runs thin at the folds, deeper where it thickened as it slumped.
Materials, sizes and finishes are listed exactly as they are — including the fact that every disc slumps its own way, so the folds and the shadow it throws are never quite the ones in the photographs.
Specifications
| Real Photo |
The back of the shade — the side nobody styles |
| Dimensions |
∅ 9.8″ / ∅ 25 cm |
| Voltage |
AC 110–240V |
| Environment |
Indoor · dry locations |
| Preparation time |
5–10 days Made and inspected at our own workshop before dispatch. |
| Along a Hallway |
Best |
| Centre at 60–66″ |
152–168 cm from finished floor |
| How many |
One every 8–10 ft (2.4–3 m), or one per door if the doors are evenly spaced |
| Wall |
Needs a clear run of plain wall either side — this is where the cast pattern has the most room |
| Clearance |
Check the [__]″ projection against your corridor width first |
| Beside a Bed |
Pair |
| Centre at 52–56″ |
132–142 cm from finished floor |
Good to Know
What is the mesh pattern on the glass?
It is the weave of the mould, pressed into the glass while it was still molten — soft enough to take the texture, hot enough to keep it. Nothing is printed, etched or applied afterwards.On most fixtures that grain would be ground off and fire-polished away, because the convention is that a finished object should show no evidence of how it was made. Here it stays, and it does real work: it is what turns a plain glow into a rayed pattern on the wall behind. Run a finger across the surface and you can feel it.
Will it throw a shadow on my wall?
Yes — and that is the reason to buy it rather than something to worry about. Light travelling through the mesh grain and the folded seams is redrawn on the wall behind, several times its own size: the grain becomes a fine rayed pattern, the folds become dark spokes running out from the centre.Which does mean the wall matters. Plain plaster or painted plasterboard and the pattern lands whole. On patterned wallpaper, panelling, tile or a heavily textured wall it breaks up and you lose most of what you paid for. Leave 24″ (60 cm) of clear wall around it where you can.
Is it real glass, or resin?
Real glass — gathered molten, shaped by hand, never moulded resin and never acrylic made to look like art glass. Three things tell you: it is cool to the touch and heavier than it looks; the wall thickness varies across the piece, so it glows unevenly rather than lighting up flatly; and the folds run through the material rather than sitting on the surface. The mount behind it is aluminium.
Will mine look exactly like the photographs?
No, and this is the honest answer rather than a marketing one. Every disc slumps its own way — the fold pattern, the depth of the collapsed centre and the exact grain are decided by how the glass behaved on the day it was blown. Diameter, colourway and character stay consistent; the folds do not. Which means the shadow it throws is different too. If knowing precisely what will arrive matters more to you than the piece being one of a kind, a moulded fixture is the better choice and we would rather say so.
Which colourway should I choose?
Choose by what you want on the wall. Clear is the brightest and throws the sharpest rays — take it if the cast pattern is the thing you are buying. Tea amber warms the wall and pushes the whole thing toward honey; the rays are softer and the glow is the warmest of the three. Smoke grey is the most sculptural. Unlit it reads almost as a dark object on the wall; lit, it holds much of the light inside itself and gives the least cast. Take it if you want the disc itself to be the point rather than the shadow.
