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The Highest Point of a Room's Interior Design - A Beautiful French Chandelier

By: Madame CC Never before in the long history of the chandelier has there been as much choice as there is today. You can buy in person or over the internet. You can scour or the junk shops in England or America or the brocante stalls in France.

When you hang a French chandelier in your home you acquire something beautiful and practical and an object that will become a focus for the room. Other decorations will revolve around it. It will become a talking point, the centrepiece. A fireplace draws attention to a lower level in a room; whereas a chandelier is the highest point of a room's decoration.

The type of chandelier which is associated with French work is more open with its main structural support supplied not by a stem or chains but rather by a cage or frame with prettily curved arms, often gilded and with drops or candles in the centre space. Like English chandeliers, they have pendants and chains of drops.

The difference is that instead of being massed together, they are however spaced further apart so that they can be seen individually. The effect is extremely ornate and delicate without being elaborate.

The ironwork on French chandeliers by the 1900s was superbly attractive and refined. The stem might have stalks and leaves curling off it supporting crystal drops, beads and flowers. For all the bags and festoons of drops, glass arms, full panoply of other elements, the French chandelier is distinctively never heavy or crowded and always alluring.

Perhaps the longest established and best known chandelier maker in France is the firm of Baccarat, which continues to thrive today.

Chandeliers come in all shapes and sizes - some more unusual than others. Amongst some of the most eccentric charming chandeliers are those designed to represent hot-air balloons. The early nineteenth century saw a wave of enthusiasm for hot-air balloons, prompted by the first balloon flight by the Montgolfier brothers, Michel and Joseph travelling through the air for some 6 miles in 1783. Some Montgolfier chandeliers are French others Italian.

One of the things you need to be completely sure of is that your chandelier is safe; that when it is installed it will stay up, it won't shed pieces on your head and it won't electrocute anyone or burn the house down.

If you bought you chandelier from a market or a brocante you should use common sense concerning its wiring. Any chandelier is only as safe as good electrically speaking as the circuit of which it is part. Have it tested by a qualified electrician and rewired if in doubt.

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