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Article #277: The Highest Point of a Room's Decoration - The Beauty of A French Chandelier

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






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