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The Highest Point of a Room's Decoration - The Beauty of A French Chandelier

Never before in the long history of theoff it supporting crystal drops, beads and
chandelier has there been such choice asflowers. For all the festoons and bags drops,
there is today. You can buy over the internetglass arms, full panoply of other elements,
or in person. You can scour the brocantethe French chandelier is distinctively never
stalls in French markets or the junk shops inheavy  or  crowded  and  always  alluring.
England  or  America.
Perhaps the best known and longest
When you hang a French chandelier in yourestablished chandelier maker in France is the
home you acquire something beautiful andfirm of Baccarat, which continues to thrive
practical and an object that will become atoday.
focus for the room. Other decorations will
revolve around it. It will become a talkingChandeliers come in all shapes and sizes -
point, the centrepiece. A fireplace drawssome more unusual than others. Amongst some
attention to a lower level in a room; whereasof the most eccentric charming chandeliers
a chandelier is the highest point of a room'sare those designed to represent hot-air
decoration.balloons. The early nineteenth century saw a
wave of enthusiasm for hot-air balloons,
The type of chandelier which is associatedprompted by the first balloon flight by the
with French work is more open with its mainMontgolfier brothers, Michel and Joseph
structural support supplied not by chains ortravelling through the air for some six miles
a stem but rather by a cage or frame within 1783. Some Montgolfier chandeliers are
prettily curved arms, often gilded and withFrench  others  Italian.
candles or drops in the centre space. Like
English chandeliers, they have pendants andOne of the things you need to be absolutely
chains  of  drops.sure of is that your chandelier is safe; that
when it is installed it will stay up, it
The difference is that instead of beingwon't shed pieces on your head and it won't
massed together, they are however spacedelectrocute  anyone  or  burn the house down.
further apart so that they can be seen
individually. The effect is extremelyIf you bought you chandelier from a brocante
delicate  and ornate without being elaborate.or a market you should use common sense about
its wiring. Any chandelier is only as good as
The ironwork on French chandeliers by thesafe electrically speaking as the circuit of
1900s was superbly refined and attractive.which it is part. Have it tested by an
The stem might have leaves and stalks curlingelectrician and rewired if in doubt.



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