Swarovski Crystal Palace | Milan 2010.

Tokujin Yoshioka presented an LED light covered in 10,000 Swarovski crystals {alongside a second globe growing inside a tank – sorry, no image}.

‘Amplify’ by Yves Behar. These lanterns were produced using a sheet of recyclable paper, one crystal and one low-energy consuming LED light – deceptively simple and simply beautiful.

Swarovski Crystal Palace on Zona Tortona was a breathtaking experience that I will definitely not forget in a hurry. Although I did expect to see a series of visually striking installations, the experience of seeing other visitors standing quietly in complete awe in each room was something which added to the experience and created a collective hypnotic state.

Tokujin Yoshioka, Gwenaël Nicolas, Yves Béhar, Rogier van der Heide and Vincent van Duysen were commissioned to come up with a crystalline reinterpretation of the traditional chandelier. Curated by the Wapping Project, the show featured a series of rooms, in which visitors could find each designer’s work within various palatial backdrops. Each room was inspired by palaces from around the globe, including Versailles and its hall of mirrors, the Winter Palace in St Petersburg and Tokyo’s Imperial palace.

My absolute favourite – ‘Sparks’ by Gwenaël Nicolas. Single string of crystals with occasional sparks of light ricocheting around the room. It was truly mesmerizing.

‘Frost’ by Vincent van Duysen – series of modular ‘beams’ consisting of LED lights within thin glass panels.

‘Dream Cloud’ by Rogier van der Heide– cluster of thousands of tiny crystals suspended above ground.

The final room was a mini Swarovski “hall of fame”, celebrating some of the most innovative Crystal Palace installations from the past eight years.