Prairie Chandeliers

comments (1) June 26th, 2009 in The Gallery

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The chandeliers hang in the dining end of the great room in front of a wall of windows.

A couple of flood lamps illuminate the body of the chandeliers. A store bought and modified chandelier provides light from the bottom.

The glass fixture in the bottom is a modern chandelier purchased from the lighting section of the big box store.

Top detail of chandeliers.
The windows have polyester shoji material sandwiched between 1/8 glass.

Plywood model used for designing the project.

The chandeliers hang in the dining end of the great room in front of a wall of windows.

Photo: Todd A. Clippinger

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These prairie style chandeliers are made of ribbon mahogany with shoji material and glass in the windows. The chandeliers are 14" square and are 5' 6" tall without the 3' down rod. They hang from a 16' ceiling.

Due to the weight of the chandeliers, extra framing was installed around the electrical boxes. The fixtures are attached to the framing in this case, not the electrical boxes.

The design is my own but is influenced by the work of architect Brian Hemingway who does modern interpretations of the prairie style.

I built 3 models out of plywood and hung all of them in the space where they were intended to reside. Getting the balance and proportions in relation to the overall space was more of a challenge than I expected. If it looked big on the floor in front of me, it got swallowed up by the volume of the room.

The lamp in the bottom is a modern chandelier fixture that I bought off the shelf at the box store.

These chandeliers hang across the room from the entertainment center that I built. I built the chandeliers first and then entertainment center later. The gridwork design in the doors of the entertainment center reflect the design of the chandeliers.

These projects are in a prairie style house that I built with my brother in Ohio. We had many opportunities to personally design the details of the house with the clients.

Design or Plan used: My own design

posted in: The Gallery, mahogany, built-in, Todd A. Clippinger, American Craftsman, shoji material, chandelier, prairie style

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