Luxury chandeliers have always been about more than illumination. Louis XIV filled Versailles with solid silver furniture, chandeliers among them, in an ostentatious display of royal power. A century later in Bohemia, the Maria Theresa chandelier was created to mark...
The same piece of Venetian glass can look like two different objects in a single day. Seen against morning light through an east-facing window, a chandelier's crystal drops might read as pale and watery; by evening, under warm artificial light,...
In 1688, the French writer Jean de La Bruyère recorded a small but memorable mishap in his book Les Caractères: a chandelier, hung too low, snagged the wig clean off the head of a gentleman walking beneath it. Getting the...
Why a statement chandelier is one of the few pre-sale investments that shapes how a home feels, and one you never have to leave behind.
A Murano glass chandelier rarely comes with an explanation for its price. It arrives with a story about craftsmanship, an island, a tradition stretching back centuries, and a figure at the bottom of the page that asks for a great...
We have just finished this important project for a client based in Kuwait. The wall lights form part of a large commission that also included a 6000mm long chandelier, a 5000mm long chandelier, and an oval chandelier that measures 1500mm...
