“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 ...

It was probably a good day for Swarovski when the music world proclaimed bling the thing. Not that Swarovski, the world’s largest manufacturer of cut crystal, speaks bling. It talks more in terms of ...