Harry Nuriev’s Baccarat Crystal Ball

In October 2025, Crosby Studios founder Harry Nuriev was named the Designer of the Year 2026 for Maison&Objet. This accolade opened the door for the artist and designer to realize a conceptual manifesto entitled “Transformism,” a metallic immersive space of everyday objects—and an aesthetic highlight of this January’s fair. Concurrent with “Transformism,” Crosby Studios Paris hosted the release of Nuriev’s statement-making new collaboration with Baccarat.

The collection of limited pieces includes reinterpretations of Baccarat’s Zénith chandelier, Harcourt glassware, and mesmeric Sirius crystal ball—a mystic standout. “Sirius is a symbol of the purity of crystal, and for this new iteration, I wanted to give it a new voice,” Nuriev tells Surface. “Using the same graphic language as the installation I crafted at Maison Baccarat last year, the engravings turn the crystal ball into a vessel for words, gestures, and emotion.”

With the Zénith chandelier, Nuriev’s vision is an act of transformation as he has woven pens, bottle caps, keychains, CDs, and other objects into the piece—itself a metaphoric crystal ball. “With this new interpretation of the Zénith chandelier, I imagined a future where crystal no longer exists, and the family who has inherited the piece has replaced missing elements with everyday objects, items that we would barely notice today, that have become precious in this new reality,” he explains. The monumental work—on display at Maison Baccarat starting January 20—acts as a futuristic rumination on the irreplaceability of craftsmanship. In many ways, it acts as a metaphoric crystal ball—presenting a vision of what may come.