Prada Chandelier skirt

My legs totally look like this...

Looks Hard to Dust

from http://chintz-of-darkness.blogspot.com/

Gauze

National Symphony Gala

The National Symphony Orchestra season opening ball, as covered by BizBash.

Happy Hanukah!!

Costa Menorah - Simon Pearce

...perfection...

Can I get an "Amen?"

I just got religion...there is reason to hope....

French Ananas Art Deco Chandelier, Attributed to 'Bagues' (c.1925)

(photo via Kaboodle)

$120,000

Maybe Baby

"Green Chandelier" by Michelle Kaufmann

When I start hanging baby jars from trees, someone shoot me...

(actually, I like this...it's bohemian....and what are those wires?  Spun gold?  Rope?)

Culture Jam

....the Bar Code Chandelier is sold out...HA!

in honor of Buy Nothing Day

Ceci n'est pas un chandelier

Lumiere Noir/Vince Frost

on Second Life

image from:

http://npirl.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html or,

Not Possible IRL: Greetings from Planet Mongo! - Sneak peek at Lumiere Noir's new sim

Black Angel

http://www.jansantiques.com/Lot/jac1125.html

Happy Friday the 13th!

Maybe don't stand under a chandelier today....



photo from :http://eric.b.olsen.tripod.com/phan43.html

Lux Sky Flower

LUX SKY FLOWER

http://www.pitaya-design.com/

Absolutely Lovely

This might be perfect in every way.

The shades are so beautiful it hurts me to look at them.

Branches

Branches Chandelier from RianRae

....my heart hurts right now....

Day of the Dead

from the The Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic

***

One of the most fascinating artistic works inside the Sedlec Ossuary is the big chandelier of bones that lies in the center of the Church of Bones. The immense chandelier contains at least one of every human bone.

Eve of All the Hallowed

Come look at my chandeliers...

from Craigslist

"Craigslist - We're not just for serial killers!!"

Cinematic

PIOGGIA (Rain) Series

Julie Conway

I think this is less a chandelier and more a prop from a science fiction movie, no?  Silicon-based creatures oozing their mind-altering juices from the ventilation ducts....

"A-Plus"..."Plus"...thank you, someone....

Well...not just "someone"...Ingo Maurer, by name....

Porca Miseria

Ingo Maurer (1994)

Hanging light. Porcelain.

I'm Sir Galahad, I'll be your server tonight....

New York City Public Library

This does not seem very conducive to study and quiet reflection, to me. 

This seems very "a big thing is about to fall on my head and I'm scared....and it's way bright, and I'm trippin'..."

Stick this spoon...

So pretty!

NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (times infinity)

Lesson: Just because you thought of something doesn't mean you must make it...and display it!!
***
I want to say to y'all that it's getting harder and harder to find nice looking chandeliers (!)

Contest

We are all of us in the gutter,

but some of us are gazing at the stars....

Why this, today? Leave your responses in the comments.

Speaks for itself

Recalibrating...

from Apartment Therapy

for my daughter's bedroom

(those who know me know I don't yet have a daughter,

but am shopping for one...

....did I say "shopping?"  Wow.)

Don't Despair...It Might Yet Come In!

From Horchow, via Ohdeedoh/Apartment Therapy

Hybrid

Did I already post this? I can't remember anymore...

Lovely Slender Prisms

Submitted by Glenn P. (Tempe, Arizona)

Spoon Lamp, Studio Verissimo

photo by ricardo faria

 

 

...why are people always tricking me into posting things made out of garbage?

Ouch...

Can you love an inanimate object?  Is that not called fetish?

Photo by Ed O'Keefe

Trafford Centre, Manchester, England

Come in from the Rain

 Rain Drop Chandelier, Jean-Pierre Canlis  (2009)

http://www.canlisglass.com/

Gimme Gimme

The Shrill Post

Welcome to Chandelirium -  now, officially, this blogger's most popular blog--80 unique visitors this month. 

[...redacted for your reading pleasure...]

Largest Crystal Chandelier...in the World

Grande Mosque, Muscat, Oman

Honor Roll

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27326487

Mulled Cider

If you've ever wondered what this blogger might like to have in her home (or one of her homes) [no, not so much]....this is definitely a contender....[we said we didn't care!] of course, it is understood that this is the chandelier I covet, seeing that Coco Chanel's is unavailable for theft or purchase [um..what part of didn't care did you NOT understand??]

Nice for a breakfast nook.  White linen napkins, an omelet with spinach and feta, the papillon puppies playing at my feet....

Libeskind LED

It is Yom Kippur.  Here is a chandelier by an important Jewish designer, Daniel Libeskind.

Why does it matter that he is Jewish?  It does not.  For all I know he could be an atheist.  But I think Yom Kippur is about survival, and survival includes not just physical/biological survival, but cultural--that one's offspring survive to create anew--whether that be art, furnishings, poetry, or other people.

It looks exactly like and no different than his buildings, his furniture. 

I think that is interesting and essay-worthy.

P to the S--was this ever made or installed, except in Second Life????

Palate Cleanser

Jumping the Shark (NSFW)....

Today, "Chandelirium"  "Jumps the Shark"

NSFW = Not Safe For Work...not for kids....(that's why I posted it on a Saturday...)

Do not look if you have delicate sensibilities:

Um---all warnings apply....




...look...if this offends you, you are in the wrong century....click here for a ticket back to 1821.

chandelier from http://www.rockandroyal.com/

image from DOES IT MATTER?!?!

Sigh........this is what you get when you let 14 year old boys grow up without exposure to art, literature, music, beauty, women, or anything other than themselves, video games, and their own masturbatory fantasies.

That being said, it's not entirely hideous, and a lot better looking than the real thing....which in a way, makes it the most representative of all things called "Art."

Actually, I could see myself writing a Phd thesis on this.

Oh...la...........la.

Just look at those big, giant, rock crystal tears.

Coco Chanel's chandelier

Sparrows

"...His eye is on the sparrow

and I know He watches me...

Gimme a Break

Shaun Moore and Julie Nicholson (2006)

This is not a chandelier; this is a bunch of crates. You can't just call anything anything. You can't just look at a cloud and call it a dolphin. Things have names. Names are not meaningless. If names are meaningless, than thought, logic, language itself, are meaningless.

An apple is a ghost.

A chair is a symphony.

A stereo is a test tube.

A dog is a catalytic converter.

...oh...

....it is a chandelier....

Pale Fire

'Rotunda Chandelier'

Glass sculpture Dale Chihuly USA 1999

Interiors by Darth

We are not sure if this is real, or a meme....

photo: http://albanadamsview.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html

Breakfast at

Largest Tiffany Chandelier in the world: Washington State Capitol

"The Tiffany chandelier is suspended 50 feet above the floor. It is 25 feet long and eight feet in diameter; it weighs five tons. The chain which supports it is 101 feet long and weighs one and one-half tons. There are 202 lights in the chandelier."

Or you could save 67,000 children from starvation!

Philippe Starck's Zenith, a 24-light chandelier for Baccarat, and a steal, at only $67,500!