Chandeliers and Tropical Plants—What a Juicy Combo!
Hello! How are you doing today? I’m sitting outside, the air smells like soap, and it’s sunny. Lately, I’ve been trying to remember life in New York (I’ve been in Texas for the last two months), and chandeliers came to mind. Chandeliers have become sort of filthy and distant in my mind, and not in a bad way. I mostly think of city streets when I think of them, flinty crystals, and “Do Not Photograph” signs on the windows of lighting shops on the Lower East Side.
Like this New York Times‘ Voyeur column on chandeliers seen through windows, they’re so often on the other side of a door or on “Dynasty”! But I’m not considering any chandeliers that could be understood as modern. Here, it’s thick crystals and/or Murano glass. Rick Marin wrote for the Times:
“It was always a romantic object,” Mr. Moss said, attributing the chandelier’s resurgence to a reaction against minimalism. “It allows for some emotional, evocative qualities in a high-tech environment.”
There’s a woman in England who fell in love with a chandelier, it was reported last summer, and before that, she was in an open relationship with the 24 other chandeliers in her home.
“People often can’t understand that this is just a natural orientation for me, that I can find the beauty in objects and can sense their energy,” she told The Mirror. “I want others to see how happy the chandeliers make me, and how much they’ve enriched my life. I’m doing this in the hope that people will understand our love, and if not understand it, maybe they could at least accept it.”
Who knows how we will feel about our home decor after spending consecutive weeks in our home, but I think we’ll want more romance either way. More silky textures, more leafy greens, more florid, frothy chandeliers.
It would appear that track and recessed lighting felt more efficient and chic than the chandelier, and during the ’90s-neutrals era, they were viewed as outdated and imperialist.
“The history of light was about the source,” Murray Moss, of former famous design store Moss, told the Times. “Then a more invisible quality became the focus.” Chandeliers “left our consciousness until about five years ago,” he added. “After 30 years we started to miss the magic of the source.”
Below, the juicy conspiratorial partners of chandeliers and foliage, prices mostly fantastical and exorbitant.
Chandelier: Opera Stardust Gold Chandelier — $10,880
Plant: Fern — $19.99
Robe: Vintage Silk Satin Lingerie Robe — $198.45
Chandelier: Clear Crystal Bead Hanging Chandelier — $148.39
Plant: Tropical Soul, — $42.99
Robe: La Perla Silk Short Robe, — $423
Chandelier: Artistic Rich Chandelier — $3,921.55
Plant: Artificial Palm Tree — $80.16
Robe: Dolce & Gabbana Rose Striped Tie Waist Robe Coat — $1,860.45
