Famous Chandeliers From Around The World

Elvis was so moved to bring a chandelier into his Graceland estate that he insisted on an impromptu late-night shopping spree at Memphis' Belvedere Lighting in 1974. While Elvis may have left the building, the breathtaking Italian cut glass chandelier now resides in the dining room.

The impressive wrought iron chandelier that hangs above the Grand Staircase in the Vanderbilt family's great Biltmore Estate requires 72 light bulbs.

The Winchester Mystery House in California, built by gun heiress Sarah Winchester to appease unhappy ghosts, contains an elegant, imported chandelier that originally contained 12 candles, but was refitted to hold the spirit-friendly number of 13.

The Blue Room, the White House's reception room, boasts a chandelier 79 feet by 36 feet, with 19-foot 10-inch ceilings. It takes one person two entire days to clean the monstrous chandelier, but as big as it is, the lighting fixture must also be removed every year to accommodate an even bigger Christmas tree.

Outside of private residences, however, one must either go to church or gamble at the card tables to find the largest chandelier. While the title for biggest chandelier isn't a clear winner, four of the world's top casinos and a Spanish mosque currently vie for the bragging rights. However, reports say a British shopping center under reconstruction will feature the largest chandelier after remodeling is completed by the beginning of 2007.

Pat Fillman, the owner of Horns a Plenty, made the world's largest antler chandelier. He displayed the chandelier in early 2005 wowing all that saw it. The chandelier is 10 feet in diameter, 12 feet tall, and is fixed with sixty-seven light sources. With a final weight of over 850 pounds, he estimates that it took the antlers of nearly 600 dear and elk to make the chandelier.

Perhaps the most famous chandelier of all belongs, not in a house, a casino or a church, but in the theatre. Andrew Lloyd Webber's well-known chandelier crash scene from Phantom of the Opera strikes desperation in the hearts of lighting buffs everywhere.

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Look Rich and Famous Use Crystal Chandelier

Some may think those crystal chandeliers are only for rich houses, famous personalities, to some big mansions, and in a grand hall. Though you can see a lot of chandeliers on those places mentioned a while back, it is notion to almost everyone that this kind of light apparatus are only for rich and famous people who have a mansion.

But low and behold, a lot of household today had installed crystal chandeliers into their houses. For some reasons, it will truly gives elegance and beautiful light effect in a room. Convincingly even in a middle bracket of the society have an accent of this kind of life in their houses.

Usually you can see the standard of living of an individual into what kind and how they houses look like. But today you can hardly determine if a house was own by a rich or a famous person knowing that a crystal chandelier brightens the whole house.

No one has ever challenge the beauty of the lights that chandelier can bring in a house. The superiority of elegance and greatness will still be a trade mark of chandelier and no one has contested these. Knowing that crystal chandelier can beautify your home, you can actually try to have one in your house. You need to consider a lot of things; of course the first thing you need to consider is your pocket. As mention above that chandeliers are usually can be seen in some rich and famous house so obviously this will cost you a lot.

But don't loose hope there are chandeliers that you can try that will fit your budget. Consider the place where you want to place you chandelier; look for a place in your house where you have a high ceiling. Chandeliers are usually place on high ceiling approximately about thirty feet, but if you chandelier is small you can try it in a lower ceiling as long as you prevent it to head bumps and to some unnecessary accident inside your house.

Consider the light effect that it may give to you place; you can try to put a dimmer so that you can control the brightness of your chandelier. There are a lot of styles that you can choose from, you may want to have your own unique style, but the problem with this is that it may not look that way you want it to be. So better to choose the traditional way, its been tested for so many years, so even if years have past the beauty of a traditional style will last and will give you an ending brightness in your house.

But if you really want to go along with trends, you can choose different colors that are replaceable so that you can replace them in time that you want to make some changes. Decorate you crystal chandelier the way you want it and experiment on it on how it will give beauty in you house.

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