I came across another attractive children’s mini chandelier which immediately caught my eye since we are a great tea drinking family. It has a touch of the Art Deco, might one even say, chic design as well as being perfect for the nursery or playroom. I think it is the fact that it is hand-made and hand-painted which makes it stand out from the crowd. Its usability factor is good since its diameter is only about 25 inches. That means you don’t have the daunting task of finding a large space and well supported ceiling fixture if you ever need 
to re-position it, given that most people will consider it to be more for children and adults. Strangely, this store calls it an Aladdin chandelier, whereas when I first came across it, it was referred to as a tea party chandelier, a somewhat more accurate description, I would have thought than Aladdin.
The particular store I found this at, homelivingstyle.com, was also very interesting as it is a good resource for general chandeliers and particularly high range crystal chandeliers.
Quite often when you browse the larger dedicated chandelier online stores, you will be flooded with pages of products to scroll through with anything from 2000 up to 7000 examples.
Chateau crystal chandelier
Dazzling Crystal Chandelier
That is way too many to take in at one sitting , particularly if you’re not really sure quite what you’re looking for. This online store’s particular range includes about 300 different chandelier products. Now that makes it very much easier just to browse down through the pages and select the one you like, particularly since they have a lot of examples on one page still not having to click from page to page all the time. When I mentioned high-end crystal chandeliers, this particularly stunning example is actually in excess of $35,000 and that is after an $11,000 discount!
A Popular Bronze & Crystal Design
At the other end of the scale and clocking in at just over $500 is their most popular crystal chandelier(as of today) with a bronze construction and gold coloured silk shades. this is not quite in their cheapest, nor does it look it. I think this store has a very balanced stock of chandelier lighting products altogether. Well worth taking a browse!
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With the Milan Design Week 2010 starting in three weeks time (14th – 19th April), news is already trickling through of a spectacular new chandelier design using Swarovski crystals. The creation is by the Japanese designer, Tokujin Yoshioka, who first came into the limelight through his Honey-pop paper chair creation some nine years ago.
Stardust from Swarovski Crystal Palace
He is also a contributor to the Swarovski Crystal Palace with his highly acclaimed Dust Star crystal chandelier. Furthermore he has permanent displays at the MoMA (Museum of modern Art) in New York the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and several other prominent design centres.
Stella Crystal Chandelier
His “Stella” creation will be debuting at the Milan design centre and is a crystal chandelier said to look like a starburst, being spherical in shape and brilliant light beaming from it. (No prizes for guessing that it features a Swarovski crystal structure.) He explains his intention behind this extraordinarily lucent crystal chandelier as wanting to create a radiant star-like image. It certainly brings images of exploding stars from the first Star Wars film, though any denigration of this creation through using such Hollywood imagery must be ignored.
He further explains his affinity to crystals with terms of poetry and eye-catching transparency. The importance of this new design was to create something that would enlighten the viewer’s heart. Not just to create another chandelier from crystal.
This post was inspired by Lisa Smith’s blog recent blog.
2010.05.04
Here’s another spectacle from the Japanese designer, Tokujin Yoshioka (on the left). This is from another exhibition later this month. It is an 80 ft wall of crystal that has been 20 years in the making. Well, that’s when he first conceived of the idea. The inspiration is derived from Henri Matisse’s stained glass creations that Yoshioka first saw when he visited the Le Cinquentenaire de la Chapelle du Rosaire deVence (see right).
Filed under crystal chandelier by on Mar 24th, 2010. 1 Comment.
