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Inspired by the scene of living chandelier arms in Jean Cocteau’s fabled romantic fantasy, La Belle et la Bête (1946), German glass artist Jochen Holz crafts a series of deconstructed, free-blown pieces, bound honestly with clear borosilicate tubes, that mimic the timeless interior centrepiece.

Gallery FUMI sent Fitzbrien into the heat of Holz’s west London studio to document some moments of magic, as the artist talks Cocteau, Sottsass and more.