no. AA300
While there is little documentation surrounding the designer’s lighting, it remains readily identifiable.
André Arbus viewed lighting as an integral part of furnishing—if not the furniture itself—the ultimate
polish, the unspoken refinement to scale and proportion. Circa 1940s.
Drawn from a neoclassical vocabulary, this grandly scaled chandelier includes a symbolically perfect
circular antique brass support and five torch-like lamps, each with a frosted glass candle cup. The
most distinctive feature may, however, be the curved blown-to-fit mantle. The resulting medley of
diffusion, reflection, and transparency casts a distinctive glow, itself essential to the art.
h 50.75" dia 27.75"
glass | light antique brass finish | five 60-watt globe bulbs max
five frosted glass shades | clear glass surround
couPelle chanDelier-five arm
