Sunday, August 28, 2011

La Cage aux Folles Comes Home?


What economic recession?

These caged chandeliers by way of the latest Restoration Hardware sepia tome are stunningly beautiful, strongly whimsical, yet also tragic.

They're light imprisoned, cascades of captured diamonds, completely untouchable. Ultimately unknowable — unownable. Which makes me want one.

I envision these in a grand Victorian mansion, a Gothic castle, a marble bathroom or how about inside a Catholic church?!

To "free" them, I would refinish the cold metal cages in high-lacquer paint in hot pink, white, turquoise, orange or chartreuse, and hang them over a furry Flokati rug.

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