Chandeliers in popular styles

Chandelier is a unique element of lighting and interior of any room. Depending on its type, it can not only complement the design, but also become its visual center, setting the style of your bedroom, kitchen, living room.

There is nothing surprising in the fact that today there are a huge number of whole currents and trends in the decoration of this interior detail. To pick up a chandelier that is suitable for quality and visual appearance is not so difficult. Sometimes it is enough to have an idea of ​​how you would like to see your home.

Recently, various modern styles have become popular.This is due to the fact that in these areas it is much easier to choose the type of chandelier that fits into almost any interior. In addition, the choice facilitates a huge variation of the overall design and decor of lamps.

For example, chandeliers in the style of a chalet, also known as the “hunting” style, are gaining popularity, which is directly related to its decoration features. In general, for lamps of this style is characterized by deliberate rudeness and massiveness in appearance. The founders of this movement were once considered alpine shepherds, who adorned their homes with lamps, during the creation of which they were inspired by natural objects.

Now this tradition is fully observed. A chalet-style chandelier can resemble almost anything: a rough stone block, a large piece of ice, a piece of wood. When creating such an element of decor and lighting, animal horns can be used, most often artificial, parts of dark wood or wrought iron.

Also popular is vintage. This direction never loses its relevance, as it always wins due to elegance and smoothness of forms.

The chandelier can be decorated, for example, under a classic street lamp. Copper, brass, bronze are often used in manufacturing.

For lovers of lightness, natural beauty and safety for the health of the so-called eco-style.

For example, you can find lamps, the frame of which is made of various types of wood, bamboo, gossip from a rod or straw, carved out of bone.

Less well known, however, is also quite popular, is the direction of chebbi-chic.

The problem is that not every salon or specialty store can offer you suspended shebbi-chic style chandeliers.

Such lamps can be decorated with soft wool trim, as for the design of the room in this direction, a combination of upholstered furniture and its surroundings is necessary.

For example, fairly popular crocheted lampshades decorated with patterns in the form of flowers.

Much more simple and affordable are the chandeliers in the style of minimalism. As a rule, these are ceiling lamps, which not only save free space, but also attract attention with their brevity. Smooth and light forms, the lack of abundance of decor - all this allows you to use such chandeliers to decorate your room in any modern design.

Of course, today not only retro destinations are popular. Industrial, techno or even futuristic styles have found their place in the manufacture of lighting elements. This can be a very unusual in its form LED lamps that perform a purely decorative function or high-grade chandeliers in a modern design such as "UFO" or "Saturn".

In addition to the popular modern styles, which have begun to acquire relevance only relatively recently, there are classical trends. They are known in the culture of interior design and lighting elements for many years, but still have not lost their relevance, having only slightly adapted to current trends.

Chandeliers in the direction of art deco remain quite famous. This style successfully combines sophistication and refinement, while the chandeliers do not look at all deliberately massive and pompous. Inters of Greece or Egypt are dominated in their decor, and black or chocolate brown are preferred from colors.

The baroque style originated in ancient Italy also does not lose its relevance among connoisseurs of classical design. It is characterized by such a feature as a combination of unusual textures, lines, colors. As for the ceiling lamps, the baroque chandeliers attract the attention of a successful combination of pomp and lightness.

Most often these are multi-tiered chandeliers, the main material of which is real glass. Also variations of multi-colored glass and crystal can be used.

Crystal ceiling lamps provide a soft, but at the same time, bright and eye-pleasing light, which makes such chandeliers an ideal choice for decorating a spacious living room.

Another classic trend is the Stalinist Empire, which is often also called the imperial Empire. This is a rather unusual decision in the decoration of lighting elements, but it also deserved its popularity.

For the Stalin Empire style, the achievement of the greatness and pomposity of style is typical of classical materials and techniques. Chandeliers of this type are distinguished by strict lines of shapes and the symmetry of the horns. In the decoration of the popular use of elements of military subjects, the form of wings, bay leaves, eagles.

The gothic style that came to us from medieval England offers a more spacious choice in terms of decor. It can be chandeliers in the form of a wooden or metal hoop, it is fixed to individual lamps, which attract with its simplicity and minimalism.

The decoration most often preferred openwork ornament, the use of elements such as grape leaves or oak, ivy and vine shoots.

Cyber-punk style, which has found its application in the design of lighting elements, is considered to be much more specific. In this case, the chandeliers are richly decorated with various mechanical elements, gears, dense wires, hinges.

Many professional manufacturers of lighting elements are inspired by the influence of ethnic and national motives. It is not surprising that, as in the case of the overall design of the room,You can choose a chandelier in a specific ethnic style to crown the entire interior.

Of course, today there are a lot of ethnic trends in design. The most common ethnic styles of lighting fixtures:

• Chinese. This is a style that amazes with the almost complete absence of any permanent concept. Such chandeliers can have a strict cubic shape or, on the contrary, a very elegant and smooth appearance. In the decor, as a rule, there are various specific motifs such as hieroglyphs, leaves and bamboo shoots.
• Englishhe is British style, attracts clarity and simplicity. These are classic elegant lamps that are decorated with pastel shades fabric shades.

• Since the United States does not like centralized lighting very much, American Chandelier style is concise. It can be a lamp made of crystals or crystal, with a copper or brass frame.

• Popular now Scandinavian style is also called the style of the cold sea. This is fully justified by the peculiarities of such design lighting. It is characterized by unusual color solutions, such as the overcast sky, natural untreated amber or sandy shore. Chandelier shapes, on the contrary, are distinguished by simplicity and minimalism, which is a very successful combination that attracts such a Mediterranean style to itself.

• Arab the style of the lamps is literally flashy luxury and high cost. At the same time, it is not necessary to use expensive materials like natural gold, since the effect is achieved through a combination of decorative elements and forms. Most often, Arabian chandeliers have ceiling lamps in the form of domes or balls decorated with an abundance of various curls and pendants. Also often figured perforations of the ceiling;
• Moroccan style - these are chandeliers that are literally woven from the most subtle strands of silver, brass or bronze. So elegant filigree is made in the form of complex shapes like a hexagon and decoratedstained glass of multicolored glass;
• Greek the style of lamps is inextricably linked with antiquity and the era of myths. As a rule, these are rather massive forged pendant-type chandeliers that are fixed with the help of chains. Plafonds are made in the form of torches, bowls, and elements in the form of laurel leaves are often used for decorating.

To choose a suitable chandelier for the house is not so difficult, despite the large abundance of various styles and trends. In order for the lighting element to look harmonious and complement the overall interior of your home, don't forget the following tips:

• It is not always necessary to focus on the centralized lighting of the room. You can save space and make the choice of the chandelier for the sake of the overall style, and add lighting with wall sconces or a floor lamp. However, do not forget that you need a chandelier and a floor lamp in the same style;
• In the living room you need to choose a model of a large chandelier. Gothic options or an Empire style multi-tiered lamp can be excellent;

• When choosing a chandelier in the bedroom should not forget about comfort and coziness. The ideal option is Art Deco, Shabby-chic or English style.As a rule, it is these chandeliers that easily fit into almost any design option of the room;
• Do not forget that there are diode chandeliers for the home, which can perform not only a decorative function. They can be an excellent option for a small room like a corridor;
• Suspended ceiling chandeliers are usually only suitable for rooms with a high ceiling level, as they may require too much additional space. However, some minimalist styles, such as art deco, can be successfully used even in small spaces.

In the video below, see a selection of amazing chandeliers made from scrap materials in the style of shebbi-chic.