Chandeliers in the Hôtel de la Marine (Paris).

What is the Purpose of the Chandeliers

Chandeliers of the World to Inspire

Regia Marinho
4 min readMay 3, 2022

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“See how the fearful chandelier trembles above you each time you open your mouth to sing.” ― Donald Justice, Collected Poems.

A chandelier is a light fixture that hangs from the ceiling.

Chandeliers feature multiple lamps, often in multiple tiers, and are used for ambient lighting.

Chandeliers evolved from candelabra and were invented during the medieval period.

In Sintra, Portugal.

A chandelier also known as a girandole or candelabra is a branched ornamental light fixture designed to be mounted on the ceiling.

Chandeliers are often ornate and normally use incandescent light bulbs, and some modern designs also use fluorescent lamps and recently LEDs.

Classic chandeliers

They have arrays of hanging crystal prisms to illuminate a room with refracted light, while contemporary chandeliers assume a more minimalist design that does not contain prisms…

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Regia Marinho

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