Corail

Coral is the most patient architect of the marine world: reef after reef, over centuries, colonies of polyps build the one living work visible from space. Jacques Charles cast its branching form in bronze. The boughs, organic, splay and divide, each one chased to keep the fragile porosity of the original. The rectangular brass shade sets its clean horizontal above this mineral lacework. The sconce comes in gilt, silvered, or black-patinated bronze, with or without a brass plate.