Sorrento Clock

The Bay of Naples from a terrace in Sorrento. A white column and a pergola hung with purple blossom frame the view, and lemons hang from the branches above. Beyond the terrace wall in warm orange stone, the bay opens in bands of blue, dotted with small sailing boats, with the village along the shore and the outline of Vesuvius on the horizon.

Every colour is its own piece of glass. Made with the glass fusion technique: sheets of coloured Murano glass are cut by hand, composed piece by piece and fused in the kiln into a single panel, then fitted with its clock movement. Small glass tiles mark the hours. The outlines are drawn by hand and the smallest details are added grain by grain, so they stay raised on the surface.

Original Murano glass, made entirely by hand in Italy by master glassmakers: no two clocks are ever the same. A work of art that keeps time.