In the not-so-distant past, the mere mention of the word "chandelier" conjured up images of extravagant glass and crystal objects hanging in every room of some 18th-century manor house.

 The general impression of chandeliers is that they are too bold, too lavish, and above all, too expensive. While this may be true of some high-end chandeliers, there are many different types of contemporary chandeliers that can bring style and originality to one's home at a very reasonable cost. Likewise, these chandeliers can offer a whole new way of looking at rooms that have been taken for granted. There are different types of contemporary chandeliers that can fit perfectly into a person's life.

The main purpose of a contemporary chandelier is to give the modern decor of a home an added emphasis without the risk of overdoing it. While a crystal chandelier is certainly a beautiful piece in an appropriate setting (such as a Victorian-style bedroom or spacious dining room), many homes today have relaxed motifs. Different types of contemporary chandeliers fit perfectly in any modern living space.

Contemporary chandeliers can be made with different metal finishes, such as bronze, brass, nickel, chrome, and even silver. There are also contemporary chandeliers made of glass, although they tend to be more expensive than those made of metal. What really distinguishes contemporary chandeliers from their fancier traditional counterparts is the emphasis on pragmatism in form, design, and function. In fact, most contemporary chandeliers employ an assortment of patterns and color schemes, which help bring a distinct and warm glow to any room. Contemporary chandeliers also offer unique patterns not only of lampshades and holders, but also of the lights themselves. The features of most contemporary chandelier lampshades are really what sets them apart from other types of chandeliers, and by and large, imagination is the only limiting factor in these designs. As for the lights, candles are finished and porcelain lighting has arrived. Contemporary chandeliers offer porcelain lighting to create an understated atmosphere.

As for the number of lights used in most contemporary chandeliers, personal taste in style is a determining factor. Contemporary chandeliers can have as many or as few lights as desired. The alternatives and variety are truly endless with these different types of contemporary chandeliers.

The days when chandeliers were classified as expensive or gaudy are behind us. With so many different types of contemporary chandeliers available, everyone has the opportunity to transform homes into something approaching an art gallery. These intimate pieces are able to add personality to the rooms in one's home. Whether you decide on a simple and understated contemporary chandelier or a bold and colorful one, you cannot go wrong with adding one of the many different types of chandeliers to the interior of your home.

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 Elvis was so excited to bring a chandelier to his Graceland estate that he insisted on doing a late-night impromptu shopping spree at Belvedere Lighting in Memphis in 1974. When Elvis left the building, the Murano glass chandelier now stands in the dining room. The massive Murano glass chandelier that hangs above the Grand Staircase at the Vanderbilt family's Biltmore estate requires 72 bulbs.

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

The Blue Room, the White House reception room, boasts a chandelier measuring 79 feet by 36 feet, with ceilings measuring 19 feet 10 inches. trained personnel, professionals in cleaning Murano glass chandeliers, can take up to 2 days to clean a chandelier of this enormous size.

Outside of private homes, however, finding the largest Murano glass chandelier requires going to church or playing tables. Although the title of largest chandelier has no clear winner, four of the world's major casinos and an Arab mosque currently vie for the bragging rights. However, it is rumored that a British shopping center under renovation will feature the largest chandelier once work is completed by early 2025.

Pat Fillman, owner of Horns in Plenty, has installed a large Murano glass chandelier. He displayed the chandelier in early 2005, stunning everyone who saw it. The chandelier has a diameter of 3 meters, a height of 12 meters and is equipped with sixty-seven light sources. With a final weight of more than 850 pounds, the artist estimates that it took at least 45 days of glasswork in Murano to make it.

Perhaps the most famous chandelier of all is not found in a home, casino or church, but in a theater. The well-known chandelier accident scene in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera makes lighting enthusiasts around the world despair.

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Like the city of Venice, Murano comprises a cluster of small islands, connected by bridges. It has been the center of the glassmaking industry since 1291 when the furnaces and glass craftsmen were moved here from the city, prompted by the risk of fire to the buildings and homes (which at that time were constructed almost entirely of wood) and the disagreeable effects of the smoke.



The island of Murano is about a mile across the water from Venice and was already inhabited in Roman times. “Amurianum” was its original name. Used at first as shelter by refugess from Altino, Opitergio and Aquileia who escaped in the 5th Century from barbaric invasions, Murano soon became a fulcrum of important traffics and distinguished itself the glass art. Men and women from Oderzo later joined these settlers and by the 7th and 8th centuries, the island’s port of Sant’Erasmo was an important calling-place for merchant ships.



Eventually, Murano grew in population and prosperity to such an extent as to reach its greatest splendor in the 16th century when many palaces and houses, churches and monasteries, gardens and orchards arose side by side with glass factories to demonstrate the prosperity of this wealthy community. So densely was the island populated that by th 11th century, the Doges were encouraging islander to move to Venice. After the 13th century Murano passed under the jurisdiction of a podesta (mayor) chosen from the ranks of the Venetian patricians, but despite this it continued to have its own Grand Council. It had a “Golden Book” in which were entered its original families who enjoyed special privileges so that a Veneto aristocrat could marry the daughter of a glass master without losing any of his claims to his noble titles. Just as Venice did, Murano too could coin annually.

From the mid-14th century onwards, the artisans of Murano started to sell their products abroad. They quickly gained a reputation for producing small beads of murano glass and for the mirrors which became a major Murano export during the course of the 15th century. Within fifty years the island’s glasswork had lost much of it utilitarian character and had become a fully fledged art form. Because of the growing importance of the glass industry, its artisans had to submit to severe political restrictions in order to balance their very considerable privileges. By contrast with the rest of Europe, Venice did not require a man to belong to a glassmaking family as a condition for learning the art. Any talented apprentice could rise, step by step, through the ranks to become a master glassmaker. However, the glassmakers were forbidden to emigrate from Venice on pain of sequestration of all their goods. Nevertheless, it is known that in the 16th century several glassmakers did succeed in setting up factories in Northern Europe, where they also flourished.

Independent until 1924, Murano boasts a coat-of-arms which is a cock with a snake in its beak and a fox on its back, symbolizing surveillance, shrewdness and prudence. Murano is now populated with approximately 6,000 “Muranese” residents.