NEW YORK—The French designer Christophe Côme crafts furniture and lighting from melted, molded and carved glass lenses and industrial crystal, often pairing those materials with wrought iron. His first solo show in the U.S., at Cristina Grajales, in New York, from November 5 through December 24, includes 30 examples of his metal-shop alchemy, from cabinets and mirrors to lamps and screens. His 2007 Irregular Enfilade cabinet ($60,000), is a streamlined update of the Art Nouveau designs of fin de siècle Paris.

"Elevating Iron" originally appeared in the November 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's November 2009 Table of Contents.