| Chandeliers have been around for hundreds of years | | | | and castles of royalty, chandeliers, especially the |
| now. They have evolved from simple wooden | | | | crystal variety, have been a mainstay of illuminating |
| crosses with candles attached to the ends, and hung | | | | larger areas of the home. While they soared in |
| from the ceiling to their various modern incarnations. | | | | popularity throughout the years because of the |
| Some of these include styles as different as elaborate | | | | prestige which is attached to being able to have one in |
| contemporary works of art to models fashioned from | | | | your home, as the dawn of the 1970s came upon us |
| wrought iron in a western motif. However, with a wide | | | | the interior design trend was more toward compact |
| array of available lighting fixtures on the market today | | | | and contemporary styles. We continued to push the |
| the chandelier may not get as much consideration as it | | | | envelope throughout the following decades with more |
| did in years past. | | | | modern and futuristic styles in home decor. It is quite |
| Many of us remember going into our grandmothers | | | | possibly during this time the artists on the cutting edge |
| home or a home of their friends and seeing the style | | | | of the interior design world began to meld traditional |
| that was popular in the 1950s and 1960s adorning their | | | | flavors with the new styles which were becoming |
| home. For most of us, these were electric models with | | | | more and more popular all the time. |
| crystals hanging from every arm. As we grew up, | | | | As the millennium began to come to a close, the new |
| many of us preferred more modern or contemporary | | | | incarnations of one of the oldest and most reliable |
| home decor, rather than the home furnishings of older | | | | lighting sources began to regain their throne popularity. |
| generations. There is a possibility that this is a | | | | Now as a decade has passed we find that |
| contributing factor to the decline of their everyday | | | | chandeliers are as popular as ever in every style of |
| popularity. When my parents decided to furnish their | | | | home. Perhaps the infusion of new styling with the old |
| home it was not something that was included in the | | | | prestige has produced a piece of home decor that |
| interior design plan. It would appear that many of our | | | | pays respect to its history while simultaneously giving a |
| parents wanted their homes to be decorated in a style | | | | nod to the future. I believe we can safely say, the |
| that was somewhat of a departure from the houses | | | | chandelier is not just a home decor fixture of the past, |
| in which they were raised. | | | | but a light to the future of interior design. |
| With a humble beginning and an ascent to the homes | | | | |