$35,000 / set
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Chandeliers
Located in New Orleans, LA
Crystal plaquettes and octagonal shaped crystal form a crown at top.
Crystal, Bronze
Large French empire style chandelier with fifteen lights
Located in Houston, TX
This large and beautiful empire style chandelier is in amazing condition with twelve Lights around the perimeter and three lights within the crystal bowl. It has a crown Encircling ...
Crystal, Bronze
Pair of Louis XV Bronze Chandeliers with Blue Grapes, French Mid-20th Century
Located in New Orleans, LA
Each chandelier sports bronze candle cups and bobeches, and is adorned with a crown of clear crystal stars and blue crystal grapes.
Crystal, Bronze
Large and Beautiful Late 19th Century Russian Empire Style Chandelier
Located in Long Island City, NY
With two tiers, each fitted with interior lights, typical Empire bronze designs, drop crystal and plumes as the crown. If you are looking for a Chandelier, Charles Cheriff Galleries...
Crystal, Bronze
Early 20th Century Gilt Bronze Beaded Basket 13-Light Chandelier
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Early 20th Century Gilt Bronze Beaded Basket Thirteen Light Chandelier A crystal beaded crown and basket bottom, six perimeter lights with rose shades, six lower interior lights ...
Crystal, Bronze, Ormolu
Italian 19th Century Louis XVI Style Eighteen-Arm Chandelier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
The top tier displays six arms with uniquely scrolled arms with additional magnificent crystal pendants while the top crown displays a fabulous spray of scrolled ormolu supports ador...
Crystal, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Belle Époque Period Chandelier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
At the center are bulbs shining upwards illuminating the striking Baccarat crystal dagger and cut crystal pendants. The cage displays a fine twisted design adorned with acanthus leav...
Crystal, Ormolu
Stunning Vintage Chandelier, France, circa 1950s
Located in Bastogne, BE
The crystal chandelier is crowned with a figurine in the form of a brass girl.
Crystal, Brass
$39,500Sale Price|24% Off
Late 19th/Early 20th Century Bronze and Beaded Empire Style Basket Chandelier
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Important Late 19th/Early 20th Century Gilt Bronze and Beaded Twenty Four Light Empire Style Basket Chandelier With a crystal dome crown and bronze empire designs, twenty four ti...
Crystal, Ormolu, Bronze
Empire Form Eight-Light Chandelier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
French Empire chandelier, its circular frame of gilt metal, holding the opera basket bottom, finished by a ball drop, having eight S-scroll arms, each decorated with a leaf, ending i...
Crystal, Iron
Prometheus I & II by Christopher Boots, 2016
By Christopher Boots
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Prometheus I Quartz crystals point up like a crown. Prometheus II Quartz crystals point down like the Sword of Damocles.
Quartz, Brass
Italian Murano Glass Chandelier with 24-Karat Gold Accents, Giovanni Dalla Fina
By Giovanni Dalla Fina
Located in Villaverla, IT
Flared golden glass canopy and ribbed crystal baluster node crown the intricate suspended composition.
Gold, Gold Leaf
Italian Vintage Murano Glass Chandelier, Floral & Beaded, Chrome Frame, 1960s
Located in Villaverla, IT
Arching light branches radiate outward, each terminating in a crimped petal bobeche saucer supporting candle-style sockets, while an upturned crystal corona canopy crowns the upper s...
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
$19,500 / set
A Pair of Harald Notini Swedish Grace Chandeliers
By Harald Notini, Arvid Böhlmarks Lampfabrik
Located in New York, NY
Each chandelier is fitted with six gracefully pivoted arms terminating in bowed cups with clear hand blown glass bobeches, crowned with elegant crystal prisms and completed with trai...
Brass, Nickel
Contemporary Brass Light Pendant, Nephentes Cordon/Tendril by Christopher Boots
By Christopher Boots
Located in Warsaw, PL
Design: Christopher Boots Materials: Brass, Hand blown opal Glass Available finishing: Aged Brass Brushed Brass Hand Rubbed Brass Dark Bronze Mottled Patina Brushed Stainless Steel...
Brass
$17,500
Italian Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
Italian eight-light chandelier festooned with beaded roping; a central glass baluster column surmounted with a crown of cut crystals and branches heavily ornamented with long tear dr...
Pietro Chiesa Fontana Arte Chandelier Italy 40s
By Fontana Arte, Pietro Chiesa
Located in Cork, IE
The etched convex glass plate is beautifully decorated with sandblast details above which six crystal glass crown leaves are arranged around the brass rod.
Brass
Italian Murano Glass Chandelier with Brass Frame and Gold Accents, 1970s
Located in Villaverla, IT
Rising above the primary tier is an elegant crest of scrolling shepherd’s crook pasture arms adorned with suspended crystal teardrop pendants, crowned by a flared brass ceiling cup a...
Brass
Chandeliers — simple in form, inspired by candelabras and originally made of wood or iron — first made an appearance in early churches. For those wealthy enough to afford them for their homes in the medieval period, a chandelier's suspended lights likely exuded imminent danger, as lit candles served as the light source for fixtures of the era. Things have thankfully changed since then, and antique chandeliers and pendant lights are popular in many interiors today.
While gas lighting during the late 18th century represented an upgrade for chandeliers — and gas lamps would long inspire Danish architect and pioneering modernist lighting designer Poul Henningsen — it would eventually be replaced with the familiar electric lighting of today.
The key difference between a pendant light and a chandelier is that a pendant incorporates only a single bulb into its design. Don’t mistake this for simplicity, however. An Art Deco–styled homage to Sputnik from Murano glass artisans Giovanni Dalla Fina, with handcrafted decorative elements supported by a chrome frame, is just one stunning example of the elaborate engineering that can be incorporated into every component of a chandelier. (Note: there is more than one lighting fixture that shares its name with the iconic mid-century-era satellite — see Gino Sarfatti’s design too.)
Chandeliers have evolved over time, but their classic elegance has remained unchanged.
Not only will the right chandelier prove impressive in a given room, but it can also offer a certain sense of practicality. These fixtures can easily illuminate an entire space, while their elevated position prevents them from creating glare or straining one’s eyes.
Certain materials, like glass, can complement naturally lit settings without stealing the show. Brass, on the other hand, can introduce an alluring, warm glow. While LEDs have earned a bad reputation for their perceived harsh bluish lights and a loss of brightness over their life span, the right design choices can help harness their lighting potential and create the perfect mood. A careful approach to lighting can transform your room into a peaceful and cozy nook, ideal for napping, reading or working.
For midsize spaces, a wall light or sconce can pull the room together and get the lighting job done. Perforated steel rings underneath five bands of handspun aluminum support a rich diffusion of light within Alvar Aalto's Beehive pendant light, but if you’re looking to brighten a more modest room, perhaps a minimalist solution is what you’re after. The mid-century modern furniture designer Charlotte Perriand devised her CP-1 wall lamps in the 1960s, in which a repositioning of sheet-metal plates can redirect light as needed.
The versatility and variability of these lighting staples mean that, when it comes to finding something like the perfect chandelier, you’ll never be left hanging. From the natural world-inspired designs of the Art Nouveau era to the classic beauty of Paul Ferrante's fixtures, there is a style for every room.
With designs for pendant lights and chandeliers across eras, colors and materials, you’ll never run out of options to explore on 1stDibs — shop a collection today that includes antique Art Deco chandeliers, Stilnovo chandeliers, Baccarat chandeliers and more.
Designer Eva Menz wants the light to "evoke curiosity and a sense of wonder."
Working with resin, a tricky material, has created moments of failure — and enlightenment.
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The 1920s design is a thrilling combination of saturated colors, ancient motifs and modern aesthetics.
Designed by a giant of Swedish lighting, the large-scale fixtures bring major drama.
The alluring pendant light exemplifies the designer’s winsome mid-career work.
Before founding the Memphis Group, Sottsass bent the rules of lighting design with the wonderfully wavy Cometa.