Magnificent, Very Rare Chandelier

This mag­nif­i­cent chan­de­lier is exquis­ite­ly gild­ed, fea­tures 15 lights, and is a beau­ti­ful mod­el cre­at­ed around 1870 in col­lab­o­ra­tion between Lud­wig Lob­meyr and the famous Ringstraße archi­tect Theophil Hansen.

The five swept main arms ter­mi­nate in 10 side arms on the low­er lev­el and 5 armes in the lev­el above. The 15 can­dles have gilt noz­zles and beau­ti­ful elab­o­rat­ed glass drip pans.
All arms are embell­ished with var­i­ous hand-cut glass pen­dants and glass beads dec­o­ra­tion. The Chan­de­lier stem con­sists of beau­ti­ful hand-cut glass ele­ments, crowned by a gilt bronze wreath, with small arms dec­o­rat­ed with very fine Bronze Doré string of pearls and very fine elab­o­rat­ed glass pen­dants.

The entire Chan­de­lier is abun­dant­ly dec­o­rat­ed with stun­ning, hand-cut glass pen­dants and very fine Bronze Doré orna­ments.
Very spe­cial are also the five jew­el-like pen­dants on a Bronze Doré pearl string with fine cut prisms and beads.
All glass ele­ments are of high­est, tru­ly refined qual­i­ty, the Vien­nese man­u­fac­to­ry Lob­meyr undoubt­ed­ly stands for.

A per­fect exam­ple for the peri­od when Lob­meyr already worked for the new clients who built all the beau­ti­ful Palaces on the Wiener Ringstraße. Theophil Hansen, for exam­ple, was one of sig­nif­i­cant archi­tects who designed not only the build­ings but also the Inte­ri­ors.
His phi­los­o­phy was that only the com­bi­na­tion of design of a build­ing and the Inte­ri­or turn it into a ​“Gesamtkunst­werk”.

The col­lab­o­ra­tion between the glass pub­lish­er Lud­wig Lob­meyr and the famous Vien­na Ringstraße archi­tect Theophil Hansen cul­mi­nat­ed around 1870 in an icon­ic chan­de­lier design that is still con­sid­ered a mile­stone of Vien­nese His­torism today. This chan­de­lier, often sim­ply referred to as the ​“Hansen” mod­el (Series 1061), com­bines Hansen’s archi­tec­tur­al rig­or in the Neo-Renais­sance style with the mas­ter­ly glass crafts­man­ship of the house of J. & L. Lob­meyr. From the 1860s onward, Lud­wig Lob­meyr sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly brought lead­ing archi­tects of his time on board to mod­ern­ize tra­di­tion­al Bohemi­an glass design and adapt it to the mag­nif­i­cent style of the new Vien­na Ringstraße buildings. 

These pio­neer­ing col­lab­o­ra­tions also served as prepa­ra­tion for major inter­na­tion­al events: Theophil Hansen’s designs — includ­ing opu­lent stemware sets and mon­u­men­tal cen­ter­pieces — were pre­sent­ed with great suc­cess at the World’s Fairs in Paris (1867) and Vien­na (1873), among oth­ers, and left a last­ing imprint on Euro­pean liv­ing cul­ture. The coop­er­a­tion between Theophil Hansen and Lud­wig Lob­meyr left a pro­found mark on the most sig­nif­i­cant mon­u­men­tal build­ings of the Vien­na Ringstraße. Hansen, as one of the defin­i­tive archi­tects of the era, and Lob­meyr, in his capac­i­ty as a Pur­vey­or to the Impe­r­i­al and Roy­al Court (k.u.k. Hofliefer­ant), were respon­si­ble for appoint­ing spec­tac­u­lar state rooms.

To name but a few: the Aus­tri­an Par­lia­ment build­ing — most notably the mon­u­men­tal chan­de­lier in the House of Lords cham­ber (Her­ren­haus­saal), mea­sur­ing five meters in diam­e­ter, which was designed by Hansen and mas­ter­ful­ly craft­ed by Lob­meyr. In addi­tion to these large-scale pub­lic build­ings, the Hansen/​Lobmeyr duo also appoint­ed numer­ous pri­vate palaces (palais) of the new­ly rich Vien­nese upper class around 1870. A prime exam­ple is the Palais Ephrus­si — also designed by Hansen and locat­ed on Uni­ver­sitätsstraße, its bele­tage (grand floor) salons were fur­nished with the exact ​“Hansen” series chan­de­liers that blend­ed the archi­tec­t’s geo­met­ric rig­or with the light­ness of Lob­meyr crys­tal. Lud­wig Lobmeyr’s pri­vate apart­ment, which he moved into around 1870, was like­wise fur­nished by Theophil Hansen in the His­tori­cist style and fit­ted with these mag­nif­i­cent, new­ly designed chandeliers.

Read more about T. Hansen and one of the for­mer own­ers of our cur­rent loca­tion, the Palais Pallavici­ni in Vien­na. Frei­herr Georg Simon von Sina and his fam­i­ly owned the palace at Josef­s­platz from 1828 to 1842 by click­ing here. Also, we intro­duce an ele­gant leather arm­chair by T. Hansen in our col­lec­tion, click here.

This Chan­de­lier here reflects per­fect­ly the style of this time.

All our Chan­de­liers under­go a care­ful inspec­tion and ren­o­va­tion process in our inhouse-work­shop, and are new­ly fit­ted for electricity.