Sedate or ostentatious, chandeliers long have served as a room’s focal point, most at home over a dining table, as reported in Saturday’s HomeStyle section.
But they are not limited to that application, and these days are not at all relegated to traditional brass light fixtures with candlesticks or classic sparkling crystals.
Like candlelight, the glow from chandeliers can be mood-altering and romantic (especially with dimmers). The hanging fixtures can add sophistication — even glamour — as they lend weight to dead air space.
Many of the newest chandeliers will steal the design show with big scale, exaggerated proportions, an emphasis on architectural or sculptural form, a pop of color or obvious decoration. It’s about the light, but so much more. Expanding the palette of materials, and fusing them in fresh ways, has spoken more to the end user because of what interiors and product designer Laura Kirar calls “the evolution of the public.”
Read tomorrow's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
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