When Cadar showed up at Salone del Mobile this April, it did not bring jewelry. It brought candles. And not the kind you grab in a gift shop because they smell nice. These are hand-blown Murano glass spheres in colors so saturated and glossy they look less like home objects and more like something you might find in a collector’s vitrine. The moment you see them on a table, you want to pick one up. That instinct tells you everything about how well this design is working.
The form is deceptively simple. Each Circle of Light vessel is a sphere, composed of two to three separate hand-blown glass parts that stack and lock together into one seamless orb. The bottom is a wide, bowl-shaped candle vessel. A middle section can be added for a taller configuration, and the top is a smooth dome that caps the whole thing off. When assembled, the seam between pieces is visible but refined, almost like a deliberate detail rather than a structural necessity. When pulled apart, each piece becomes its own open candle vessel, low and round, sitting flat on a surface with quiet confidence.
Designer: Cadar Designs
The colors are where this collection makes its boldest statement. Cadar and Venini did not play it safe. There is a deep cobalt blue paired with emerald green. A ruby red domed over a rich burgundy base. A warm amber sitting beneath a charcoal gray cap. A dusty lavender paired with a smoky brown. The combinations read like color theory exercises carried out by someone with very good instincts and zero fear. Looking at a table full of them, the effect is almost planetary. Each sphere feels like its own small world, and together they create something closer to a color installation than a product display.
That display at the Venini booth reinforced the point. The booth itself was organized as a full-spectrum rainbow wall, with each color column housing its corresponding spheres on glass shelves. It was theatrical in the best way, the kind of presentation that makes you understand what a product is about before anyone explains it to you. The candles did not need signage. The visual language was that clear.
The glass itself deserves attention. Venini has been making Murano glass for 105 years, and you feel that history in the material. The surface has a depth to it that paint or glaze simply cannot replicate. Some of the dome tops carry a subtle engraved motif, a geometric pattern consistent with Cadar’s jewelry aesthetic, which grounds the collection in the brand’s visual identity without announcing itself loudly. The finish across all pieces is high-gloss and lacquered-looking, which amplifies the color and gives each sphere an almost liquid quality in certain light. Picked up and turned in your hands, the glass has real weight.
Cadar, founded in 2015 by designer Michal Kadar, built its reputation on 18k gold jewelry defined by bold minimalism and fluid movement. Michal’s background is in fashion, and it shows in the way her pieces are conceived with the body in mind, with proportion and balance as non-negotiable starting points. That same sensibility applies here. The sphere is not an arbitrary choice. It is a form Cadar has returned to repeatedly, and in translating it from fine metal to hand-blown glass, the design team found a material that responds to light in an entirely different, arguably more democratic way. Gold catches light and keeps it. Glass catches light and gives it back.
The fragrances, composed by master perfumer Alberto Morillas, are tied to Cadar’s existing jewelry collections: Light, Water, and Bloom. The idea that a scent corresponds to a visual collection is not new, but it works here because the objects themselves feel like they carry a mood. You would choose your sphere the way you choose what to wear, based on color, on scale, on what kind of atmosphere you are trying to create.
The collection is available for pre-order at the Cadar flagship boutique in New York’s Meatpacking District and online at cadar.com. It is the kind of thing you put on a shelf and look at before you even light it. And that, ultimately, is the whole point.
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