INSPIRATIONS
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Add timeless sparkle with multifaceted crystal Crystal has accompanied electric lighting since its early days, adding a familiar ambiance of classic elegance. Today’s contemporary designs by Hudson Valley Lighting® reinvent vintage sparkle with modern flair. For glittering inspiration, look no further than these beautifully crafted crystal creations.
Dunkirk When Gino Sarfatti designed the first chandelier that launched the Sputnik-style craze, he was trying to emulate fireworks. Dunkirk is an opulent, branching design which seamlessly integrates Sarfatti’s vision with 32-cut faceted crystal spheres bedazzling at the ends of delicate stems.
Alexandria by Hudson Valley Lighting®
Multifaceted Crystal Hudson Valley’s expert artisans cut crystal into multifaceted prisms, teardrops and boebeches to imbue the crystal with extra sparkle and dimension, allowing it to beautifully refract the light.
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Crawford The luxe of Versailles is alive and well in this modern interpretation of an old-fashioned French chandelier. Adorned with deep 16-cut crystal teardrop prisms and finished off with a robust crystal finial, Crawford conjures the glamour of this famous French palace.
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Crafting Crystal
Crystal Beading Hudson Valley Lighting recently introduced multifaceted crystal beading to a variety of their new collections. These delicate, top-grade crystals create soft elegance and brilliant illumination around each fixture’s light source.
Royalton Royalton evokes the elegance and glamour of a Jazz Age ballroom with strings of crystal beads that cascade like a waterfall around a stacked candelabra.
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Glass making has changed very little over its 2,000-year-old history. The process begins when raw crystal ingredients (silica-sand, potash and red-lead) are mixed and made into molten crystal in a furnace. There, lead oxide is introduced to add density and alter the crystal’s light diffraction properties. Glass makers use wood blocks and molds to create the shapes they want, and once the mixture hits the mold, the glass cools within seconds. The pattern is then drawn on the crystal and roughed out with a power-driven wheel. Finally, the crystal is polished in an acid bath, leaving behind a lustrous shine.
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