Despite 14 floors of louvers, this tour de force is anything but modest. Lúcio Costa and his team placed a glass curtain wall on the opposite side of this slim silhouette and floated the tower above a plaza from which admirers have stopped and stared since 1943.

Crystal made in Sweden.
Designed and etched in the U.S.A.
94 mm. H; 257 mm. C
Each glass holds 320 ml. (11 1/4 oz.)