Glass chandeliers are trending. Our top picks will add sparkle to your home

Whether cut-glass, blown, beaded or moulded, crystal chandeliers' glamorous sway gives any interior design scheme a touch of razzle-dazzle

Chandelier fire in a modern fitting? This dynamic Dandelion Starburst nine-light piece sets modern materials on a rectangular canopy; Etta Avenue design, from €199.99, Wayfair.

The chandelier has had more interpretations down the centuries than any other lighting piece. Glowing in cut-glass across the painted and plastered ceilings of high society since the 1600s, glass and light provided a supernatural level of magic to a formerly shadowy world. Reflecting and refracting first candlelight and then the brilliance of incandescent electric bulbs, chandeliers were practical as well as gorgeous. They lit a variety of spaces, delivering prismatic light play onto walls, ceilings, and floors. Twisted glass arms, stacked stems, faceted gem-like buttons and glittering glass prisms were combined to create bouquets of blossoms, falling water and icy stalactites.