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Favorite Chandelier for Your Home

Oops, I was not truthful in the Chandeliers for Your Home post where I said the next post would show my favorite. I got overcome coveting Ben & Daniels’ exotic lacquerware, red Chinese cabinet, carved wood panels in lieu of a headboard (what a great idea!) and of course, the Cambodian elephant.

I’m not sure this qualifies as a “chandelier” it is a lantern, but I’m taking creative license with descriptions because this would be my favorite of all.

Oh, I absolutely love this shape. It’s featured at aiyanainc.com. According to the description, it will cast shadows. Gorgeous shape + shadows = glorious!!!

Also an exciting purchase arrived today that I will use for a creative DIY project described previously. I almost said I’d post about that tomorrow, but maybe I shouldn’t make promises like that any more! I also found it interesting that considering all the places on the planet this object could have come from, it was found online but delivered from the town right next to ours. It’s true it’s a small world now.

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Chandeliers for Your Home

Let’s see if there’s a commonality among chandeliers I’ve admired. (The post about mirrors, where I gathered images all in one place, helped me clearly see what I will look for in a bathroom mirror.) During these holiday months, we more often gather with many people at the dining table. And what better way to bring beautiful light to us, our families and guests than from the jewels 0f a chandelier. I’ve admired these:

The Gypsy Chandelier in the Sundance catalog. Just look at these details!

Definitely liking BIG drippy things which this chandelier also has, at Home Portfolio:

Lest this starts looking like an homage to one of my favorite shows, True Blood on HBO, let’s move on to another look. I like some strength in the shape. Like this Femme Fatale Chandelier at Horchow:

Damasco Chandelier at Home Portfolio, in a set of staggered threes:

Expanding on this shape, clearly there’s a preference for tiered styles like this M0ura Starr design featured at Home Portfolio. It has options for 50 colors!

And this one, but I’d like more Mughal than Abbey shapes. This on,e shown at Home Portolio too, makes me think of pipe organs in church. I’d rather think of anything else but that in my home. But still, I like the shape.

At over US$11,000 this one will remain a fantasy. But couldn’t you replicate this look with fabrics?

Check out this pierced metal chandelier at Horchow:

It seems to carry several personalities:

What a view from below:

Different shape, but I also like this metal chandelier at Horchow:

I also like strong glass globes. But at over  US$16,000 this featured at Home Portfolio will not be hanging over my dining table. Nice to look though:

Similarly, this Minaret Pendant at Home Portfolio:

Generally I avoid leggy eight-arm chandeliers. I lived in a condo once that had a big shiny brass one in the foyer and it made me nervous. It gave the feeling like an enormous octopus or spider was looming over us. I don’t like feeling like prey. Who does?! What a welcome to the home! It was immediately taken down and replaced. Things in threes are far more friendly …

Blown glass chandelier at Home Porfolio:

And another one, colorful:

What’s my favorite? Although I could live with all of these, it’s none of these! Will share that in the next post because it deserves to be highlighted all on its own.

‘Tis the Season

… when many dream of jewelry. Every woman must have jewelry in her home.

I’m a huge fan of the Sundance catalog’s jewelry. Huge. I like the handmade and unique feeling many pieces convey. Current favorites include …

Happenstance Earrings — I like the color combo:

Wire Links Necklace — Granted, it lacks the charisma to jump off the screen at you. But give it a chance. It’s long for doubling up, I love oversized links, and I would likely modify it to add my own touch to the necklace:

For example, I would string a ring on the necklace, such as this Harmony Ring:

Or the Rajputana Ring:

Because whoever said rings can only be on fingers?

I love the curves of these Mehndi Earrings:

And the matching necklace brings beautiful color. Although I’m not into matchy-matchy so I wouldn’t wear both together, or even purchase both:

Liking the round wire of these Drip Drop Ruby Earrings which makes a basic more interesting and refined:

Rupali Earrings featuring the stone I currently obsess over, labradorite:

Can I ask for every drawer in this Maharani Jewel Box to be filled with pieces from Sundance?

I notice a verrrrrrrrrrrry  interesting trend when looking over these pictures. I nearly exclusively wear only silver. It goes better with my skin tone and the clothing colors I wear. However when thinking of India, I think in gold.

While we’re admiring adornments, if my India pied a terre could speak, I think it would ask for baubles in the form of a chandelier. A chandelier like the Gypsy Chandelier at Sundance:

And you know what? I would be more than happy to oblige its wishes if this is what it wants.

Hanging Ceiling Lamps

I’m obsessing over this ceiling lamp we saw today in a shop on South Congress in Austin, Texas:

It’s made in Morocco. The designs are made with henna.  It would bring mysterious and exotic atmosphere to any room where it’s hanging.

Below are a few more examples from around the Internet. I think the colors and design of something like these would mix well with the future decor of our India pied a terre.

From justmorocco.com:

Another example from justmorocco.com:

From moroccancaravan.com:

From homestead.com:

From justmorocco.com:

From Planet Nomad, here’s a traveler’s shot of a hanging lamp in Morocco, looking from the floor straight up at the lamp and the fantasically-decorated ceiling:

Here is how these hanging lamps can enhance the atmosphere of rooms. These stylish rooms are at the Dar Les Cigognes, a boutique hotel in Marrakech, Morocco:

I must warn, these are animal skins stretched over frames, then decorated with henna designs. The curvier shapes and the henna drawings that are more intricate and complicated look more elegant to my eyes.