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This award-winning lattice, designed by students from Singapore University of Technology and Design can complete the magical event experience you are looking for.

Within the SG50 Lattice, the colourful End of the Day Persian Chandelier dances whimsically. First exhibited in 1986, as part of his exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre in Paris, Chihuly’s Persian series is a celebration of form, scale, and colour. Originally presented on pedestals, the series’ dramatic compositions have evolved to include installations mounted on walls, overhead on ceilings, and assembled in the form of chandeliers and towers. For Chihuly, Persians evoke an ancient sensibility and conjure notions of Venice, and the Near and Far East.

Experience this duality first-hand with The Float Boat on the scenic Dragonfly Lake, which invites viewers to consider material and form while delighting in the bursts of vibrant colour. Chihuly first filled boats with glass in Nuutajärvi, Finland, during his ground-breaking 1995 Chihuly over Venice Project. After several days of glassblowing, Chihuly began tossing newly made glass forms into the nearby Nuutajoki river to see how they would look in the environment. As the glistening forms floated downstream they were retrieved in wooden boats by local teenagers, inspiring Chihuly to begin massing varying shapes into similar wooden boats, for installations in museums and gardens. A veritable examination of form and function, Chihuly’s Boats challenge the traditional function of boats as mode of transportation, blurring the lines between subject and background, intent and purpose.

Dale Chihuly has been known to revisit his earlier bodies of work, often expanding on scale, exploring colour, and experimenting with modified forms. Such is the case with Walla Wallas, an iteration of Chihuly’s Niijima Floats. Developed for his 1996 exhibition, Chihuly Over Venice, Walla Wallas are large, spherical blown-glass floats with long glass tips, resembling and named after Eastern Washington’s famous Walla Walla onions. These delightful forms can be found on Dragonfly Lake.

Across the garden, the Blue and Purple Boat presents the quiet beauty of Ikebana-inspired forms resting on the still waters of Victoria Lily Pond. Chihuly first filled boats with glass in Nuutajärvi, Finland, during his ground-breaking 1995 Chihuly over Venice Project. After several days of glassblowing, Chihuly began tossing newly made glass forms into the nearby Nuutajoki river to see how they would look in the environment. As the glistening forms floated downstream they were retrieved in wooden boats by local teenagers, inspiring Chihuly to begin massing varying shapes into similar wooden boats, for installations in museums and gardens. A veritable examination of form and function, Chihuly’s Boats challenge the traditional function of boats as mode of transportation, blurring the lines between subject and background, intent and purpose.