Enameled steel, clear crystal, crystal AB coating, LED bulbs. Produced by Prearo Collezione Luce, Italy, for the Swarovski Crystal Palace collection.

“Chandeliers are an icon of opulence,” says Courtney Song, a designer at international design firm Ideo. Indeed, hanging from the ceilings of noble palaces and McMansions, chandeliers feel today like ...

Outside the rooms of ill-fated King Louis XVI, a new permanent installation completes an unfinished space. In line with the decadence of its last inhabitants, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, the ...

In 1772, French architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel drew up plans for a monumental staircase in the north courtyard of Versailles. Then the Revolution came, the Bourbon monarchy fell, and the Gabriel ...

The Design Museum is presenting Crystal Palace, a collection of contemporary chandeliers, from 27 September to 5 January. Developed for Swarovski by Ilse Crawford, the collection is intended to ...

Swarovski has a long and storied relationship with Hollywood, from celebrity clientele donning the brand’s crystals on the red carpet to the earliest days of color film with Dorothy’s bedazzled ruby ...