“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 ...

When Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby won an Oscar for Best Production Design in 2014, the opulent chandeliers in Tom Buchanan’s palatial East Egg house were one of the things we remembered. The ...