Lesley goldwasser biography

Luci contacted the manufacturer and commissioned a smaller and slightly modified version of the Viennese chandelier. Once completed, he had it shipped to Bulawayo to adorn the home he built with his wife. With a double-height ceiling entryway, the chandelier became a focal point of the home—something to remind Lesley’s grandparents and family of their passion for music, travel, and fine art. “I have memories of how complicated it was to clean [the chandelier],” Lesley said as she reminisced about her grandparents’ home in Zimbabwe. “I remember how it was lowered on a pulley system from the ceiling, then carefully polished and cleaned before going back up to its resting place.”

When Luci passed away in 1961, Lesley’s grandmother moved back to Europe, and her parents moved into the home her grandparents had built. Lesley grew up marveling at the chandelier’s magical presence in the home, appreciating its stunning beauty from a young age.

Years later, during a business trip in Vienna, Lesley met up with her cousin—the daughter of her grandfather’s cousin, who had brought Luci to the opera house so long ago. She told Lesley the story of the chandelier and arranged a visit to see the original that had inspired her family’s precious heirloom. “I looked up and gasped,” Les

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