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!

Black teardrops

as seen in

"Ruth Joffre Interiors" Carytown
Richmond, VA

Yummy

DIY Rock Candy Chandelier

Westchester County, NY

My friends' dining room

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Although not without controversy, this chandelier, in my opinion, is perfect in every way. The perfect size, style, shape, drape, weight for the space. A bit unexpected, but a jewel. This is the correct use of a chandelier--to point out the true elegance of a space, to punctuate. This fixture calls to mind the parlor of some much aggrieved Jane Austen characters--down and out sisters, cast out of their palatial estate, who must now make do with a stunningly beautiful house in the country and only four servants between them. How will they survive? The chandelier was a gift from a dowager aunt, a Countess, who took pity on their plight....in reality, the children eat their Cheerios and do math homework beneath the crystal pendants....

Beauty under desperation

Esma Pacal Turam
Neighbor's lamp, silicon (2005)

See...glass!

Anthropologie sea glass chandelier

via Casa Sugar

via Danny Seo

{Happy Birthday, New York Niece!}

Falling Water

Tobias Grau's "Falling Water"

[via Home Dosh]

Chandelier of the Proletariat

Happy Labor Day!

Crystal Waters

Cascade by Vincent Van Duysen

Swarovski crystal

Delicious Excess

Louis XV Chandelier in the lobby of Downtown by Phillipe Starck

But why not just hang it? You know some teenager is going

to find a way to put his bubblegum on it....or worse....

Here Comes the Sun

http://www.venicearte.com/

Mr. Ed

Stella McCartney’s crystal horse chandelier

on view at The Belsay Hall Castle & Gardens (via Daily Truffle)

Exposed

6 -Globe Branching Bubble

Lindsey Adelman

without flaw...

Rocknrolla

French rock crystal chandelier

French, Paris, about 1710 - 1715 Colored glass, glass, colored foils, rock crystal, gilt bronze, and silver-plated bronze

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via: Amy Azzarito, of design sponge,

who gives us the chandelicious history of the chandelier in her newish column "past and present."

no caps in homage to amy's nifty blogfont style. she's a librarian at the nycity public library, so clearly she knows what she is doing....