as you can see, i’m not over it yet. and i’ve been fascinated to the point of obsession for years now. there’s something about chandeliers that i like, the victorian or elizabethan styles more than the modern art deco/art nouveau ones. they’re opulent, garish and some of them may even be downright grotesque (like this one we saw in a chinese restaurant last weekend), but i gravitate towards figures or art that depict their general form. my notebooks, sketchpads and office journals have doodles of them swarming the margins. perhaps i need psychoanalysis for this. a shrink might even say i have a deep-seated longing for wealth and attention, but i can explain very clearly why i like chandeliers.

morbid fear of the dark + interest in historical art and artifacts = chandelier fetish. makes sense, right?

since our flat cannot accommodate a real chandelier, i wrote in a previous entry that wall decals can serve as a suitable illusion. but aside from dressing up the house, chandeliers can also dress up an outfit.

www.trenddelacreme.com

www.trenddelacreme.com

plastic pendants from betsy blonde and fuzzy design workshop

locally, i found the following in the multiply shops of bijoux de lou and shop wanderlust:

www.shopwanderlust.multiply.com and bijouxdelou.multiply.com

i get dibs on the beaded black one!!! unfortunately the one with charm cluster is out of stock. the other two have been sold to you-know-who… they still have similar designs though, so if you like them, go now before someone else beats you to them (that would be me).

i could certainly go for these:

from etsy, shopbop and eva franco

but i don’t think i could get away with this:

just one of the things you'll see at the glass fashion show in new york

i might as well swing from the rafters if i wear that. i’m not that deeply involved. though i would love to see someone wear it in this year’s halloween party.