Vintage Coastal Sculptural Metal Tole Palm Leaf Chandelier
Located in North Fort Myers, FL
Bring a touch of tropical elegance to your space with this Vintage Metal Tole Palm Tree Chandelier. Featuring a beautifully hand-painted design, this chandelier captures the lush gre...
Metal
Mid-Century Italian Gilt Tole Six-Light Floral Chandelier
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate an entry, powder room, bedroom, or breakfast area with this elegant vintage Italian floral chandelier. Crafted in Italy circa 1950, the fixture is made of gilt tole metal an...
Metal
Monumental Currey & Company Tole Hibiscus Floral Pink Green Regency chandelier
By Currey & Co.
Located in Jensen Beach, FL
An incredible monumental sized tole Hibiscus designed chandelier made by Currey & Company for Sasha Bikoff. The chandelier was designed by Sasha Bikoff and manufactured by Currey & C...
Metal
Italian Florentine Gilt Tole Chandelier with Grapes and Wheat, 1960s
Located in Antwerp, BE
A charming and richly detailed Italian Florentine chandelier, crafted in gilt tole and dating to the 1960s.
Metal
Italian 18th Century Louis XIV Period Patinated Iron and Tole Chandelier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful and extremely decorative Italian 18th century Louis XIV period patinated iron and tole chandelier. The nine arm chandelier is centered by a superb bottom floral reserve f...
Metal, Iron
Italian 19th Century Louis XV St. Tole, Gilt Metal And Saxe Porcelain Chandelier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful Italian 19th century Louis XV st. Tole, gilt metal and Saxe porcelain chandelier. The six arm eighteen bulb chandelier is centered by a charming bottom gilt metal floral ...
Metal
pair of Italian Louis XVI st. patinated wood and Gilt Tole sconces
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A whimsical and most lovely pair of Italian Turn of the Century Louis XVI st. patinated wood and Gilt Tole sconces. Each most attractive and colorful two arm sconce with its original...
Metal
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Set of Three Floral Spray Sconces attributed to Maison Baguè, Electrified
By Maison Baguès
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This whimsical design of crystal bouquets set in crystal and bronze urns is reminiscent of the poetry and craftmanship of Maison Baguès. Gilt bronze and cut rock crystal 3-light wall...
Crystal, Tôle, Bronze
Tole Floral and Leaf Chandelier
Located in Locust Valley, NY
Tole floral, leaf and vine chandelier in round shape.
Tôle
Large-Scale Tole Floral Twelve-Light Chandelier
Located in Bridgeport, CT
In two green scrolling vine tiers with attached porcelain polychrome flowers, four lights above and eight below. The lights with gilt acanthus leaf fittings and gilt spheres at the t...
Tôle
Italian Gold Painted Leaf Motif Tole Six-Light Unique Basket Shaped Chandelier
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian six-light gold painted chandelier from the 1950s. This unique basket shaped chandelier features several draping strands of tole.
Metal, Tôle
Painted White Tole Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
A charming painted tole 9-arm chandelier in four tiers with floral bobeches and leaf decoration.
Metal
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H 18 in W 22 in D 22 in
Pink and Cream Tole 5 Light Palm Leaf Chandelier in the Style of Maison Baguès
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful topsy-turvy Hollywood Regency palm leaf motif tole chandelier. This whimsical piece of lighting features 5 arms with candlestick bulbs.
Metal
19th Century French Empire Gilt Bronze and Tole Chandelier with 8 Lights
Located in Dallas, TX
Handsome 19th century French Empire gilt bronze and tole chandelier with 8 lights. Such beautiful decorative tole details on this piece with leaf like and floral images and gorgeous ...
Metal, Bronze
British Colonial Style Mid-Century Tole Palm Tree Chandelier
Located in Palm Beach, FL
British colonial style twelve light Italian tole or painted metal chandelier having a stylized palm leaf top over an oxidized center column with finial and twelve arms with stylized ...
Metal
Pair of French Chandeliers, Art Deco Period, Ormolu, Gold Leaf, 1930
Located in Austin, TX
Pair of chandeliers from the Art Deco period in France. Each fixture is made of gold leafed “tole”interlaced curved leaf forms.
Metal, Gold Leaf
A French Empire Patinated Bronze and Gold Doré Eight-Light Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
A French Empire patinated bronze and gold doré eight-light chandelier, the vase form body with flame finial and dish shaped underside suspended from four lengths of bronze chain, the...
Bronze, Tôle
Verdigris Painted Scroll Arm Six Light Chandelier
Located in Locust Valley, NY
A green painted tole and metal scroll arm six light chandelier with acanthus leaf and floral detail.
Metal
Vintage French Toleware Tulip Pendant Chandelier
Located in Bristol, GB
Vintage ‘Tole Peinte’ floral five branch pendant chandelier Beautifully painted in pastel shades.
Metal
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H 44.5 in Dm 32 in
Louis XV Style Twelve-Light Iron Chandelier with Colored Fruit Shaped Crystals
Located in Birmingham, AL
Decorated with a vast array of clear and colored crystal teardrops, pendalogues, flower rosettes, colored grape clusters, tole acanthus leaf and floral accents. Tole grape cluster an...
Crystal, Wrought Iron
Painted Tole Flush Mount Floral Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
Flush mount Tole painted flower and leaf design chandelier with Five candelabra base sockets. Painted in multiple colors with brass flower center. Good working condition. Ready to ...
Metal
Hollywood Regency Gilt Metal Sheaf of Roses Candelabra by Hans Kögl, 1960s
By Hans Kögl, Maison Jansen
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
A stunning Hans Kögl Italian tole gilt floral candle holders. Mid-Century Hollywood Regency Gilt Metal Leaf and Flower Candelabra by Hans Kögl.
Metal
White Floral and Green Leaf Tole Chandelier
Located in Locust Valley, NY
A French style vintage tole chandelier constructed of climbing green ivy and white enamel flowers with nine lights grouped in threes
Metal
French Floral Tole Chandelier
Located in valatie, NY
An electrified five-light French floral tole chandelier with violet anemones, blue corn flowers, pale pink roses, blue forget-me-nots, white astra bells, yellow marguerite daisies, g...
Metal
Vintage Italian Tole Floral Bouquet Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
Hollywood Regency tole floral bouquet chandelier. Like a bouquet with many types of multi color flowers and leaves.
Metal
Spanish Floral Tole Chandelier in Gilt Iron, 1940s
Located in Barcelona, ES
Six-Light Hand Wrought Polychrome Gilt Iron Floral Tole Chandelier, Spain, 1940s This floral tole chandelier features six branches with foliate and floral motifs ending with a light ...
Gold Leaf, Iron
8-Light Gilt Metal Reed Leaf Chandelier Tole Toleware Coco Chanel Style, Italy
By Banci Firenze
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Gilt Italian Floral reed leaf eight-light chandelier Coco Chanel Hollywood Regency style, inspired by Coco Chanel.
Metal
Grand Ten-Arm Mid-Century French Gilt Tole Sheaves of Wheat Chandelier
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This Classic sheath of wheat design chandelier features a spray of bound wheat and leaves with floral petals extending in ten arms to hold candelabra lights. This warm and grand chan...
Gold Leaf, Steel
20th Century Italian Floral Green Painted Metal Chandelier Four-Light
Located in Milano, MI
Hand-made in Italy in embossed leaf shaped iron tole with a central floral stem decorated with four curved leafted arms in embossed tole with red and green details ending with wooden...
Iron, Tôle
4 light Wood, Iron and Tole Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Late 19th century hand-wrought 4 light iron chandelier with parcel gilt tole floral and leaf motif.
Iron, Tôle
Ten-Light Floral Tole Chandelier by Novarca, Italy, 1970s
Located in Austin, TX
An important ten-light chandelier from Italy, circa 1970s, made of tole with leaf design in fall earth tones of beige, rust and light green. Newly rewired with candelabra bulb socket...
Metal
French Empire Style Green Tole and Bronze Chandelier, 1900s
Located in Austin, TX
Branching out from the tole body are eight lighted arms, each loaded with details such as acanthus leaves, shell and foliate decoration, finely executed floral relief and water leaf ...
Bronze, Tôle
Painted 28 light Tole Chandelier
Located in New Orleans, LA
Painted tole chandelier in a floral motif. Each bobeche shaped like a tulip and a tole leaf wraps the bottom of each 28 arms.
Iron
Brass and Tole Arteluce Chadelier
Located in Stamford, CT
Brass and Tole chandelier has a whimsical floral and leaf design.
Brass, Enamel
Italian Tole Palm Tree and Monkey Vintage Chandelier
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Whimsical Italian tole six light chandelier having a palm tree at the top and elegant arms with leaves at the cups, featuring three seated Moroccan monkeys in the center.
Metal
Mid-Century Painted Tôle 10-Arm Palm Tree Light Fixture with Green Leaves
Located in Atlanta, GA
A vintage painted tôle palm tree light fixture from the mid 20th century, with 10 lights and swoop arms. Created during the midcentury period, this light fixture attracts our attenti...
Tôle
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.
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