“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 ...

Designer Lidia Bersani has created a luxury megayacht concept with female millionaires in mind, sparing no attention to detail with crystal and gold touches, and amenities including a spa, cinema and ...

Yoshioka presents an LED light covered in 10,000 Swarovski crystals alongside a second globe growing inside a tank (see our earlier story about Yoshioka's Venus project). Above: Tokujin Yoshioka ...

Design Miami/Basel 2011: London designers Fredrikson Stallard present a series of crystal lamps resembling the human eye at Design Miami/Basel this week. Crystals radiate from the centre of each Iris ...

It's fashion week in New York, and the city is twinkling. Nestled in the 58th Street window at Bergdorf Goodman is the René Lalique Fish Fountain, the $215,000 (U.S.) showpiece of a million-dollar ...

Nadja is the fifth generation of Swarovskis to work for the family business, started by her great great grandfather, Daniel Swarovski. She speaks about her efforts to reinvent the company's image.

Crystal giant Swarovski is throwing open the doors of its glistening workshop for a special collaboration. Ahead of this year's London Design Festival, it has invited design duo Fredrikson Stallard ...