Left: The dazzling Galahad Blue chandelier from Currey & Company utilizes layers of recycled and recast glass disks, hand-assembled in a silver-leaf iron frame, to create the mesmerizing effect of light sparkling on water. Right: For Monumenta 2012, contemporary artist Daniel Buren installed Excentrique(s), a multicolored canopy of vibrant lenses, in the Nave of the Grand Palais in Paris.

Left: Channeling the spirit of the West Coast, the Keepall Bandoulière 50 from Louis Vuitton’s summer men’s capsule collection, designed by Virgil Abloh, features a wash of pastel shades floating over a reimagining of the classic Louis Vuitton monogram. Right: Using natural elements to make imprints, painter and photographer Sam Falls created his large-scale work Untitled (Hudson, NY, Sumac Tree 2) in 2014 by applying a spectrum of pigments to a raw canvas and then situating a sumac branch on top. When later removed, the image of the leaves remains.

Left: The Majestic Plumage necklace by Piaget uses a rare 7.49-carat, pear-shaped Paraíba tourmaline and a painterly mix of red spinels and blue, yellow, and orange sapphires and tourmalines to re-create the fiery colors of an exotic bird. Crafted by Maître d’ArtNelly Saunier, the magnificent adornment doubles as an ear cuff. Right: Known for her vivid self-portraits and expressive still lifes, Mexican artist Frida Kahlo poses with her pet birds delicately perched on her shoulders and lap in her 1941 work Me and My Parrots.

Left: Pop artist Tom Wesselmann played with the scale of bold shapes to compose his images of female body parts juxtaposed with a collection of everyday objects, such as Nude (Lithograph) (1976). Right: For Valentino’s recent spring ready-to-wear presentation, staged for the first time in Milan, creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli unveiled a fresh take on romanticism with a collection that includes billowy silhouettes in graphic floral prints.