Crystal sconces: the main types of lighting devices and the rules for their location (23 photos)
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Sconce - wall lamp on the bracket, if we consider its classic embodiment. However, today you can encounter more unusual designs.
This type of lighting creates directional or spot lighting depending on the type of lampshade. Pendants with crystal or any other decor with ornate tints of light air texture give the sconce, lamps and chandeliers a special gloss and respectability.
A bit of history
It is believed that the prototype of modern sconces in their classical form were medieval torches, candelabra and candlesticks. They also created a local point of light, made it possible to focus on a specific type of decor or to illuminate a limited part of the room.
Luxurious attributes were fixed directly on the walls of castles and palaces. Every day, lighting devices became more and more florid and more complicated.
Starting from the 17th century, the European aristocracy did not make it possible to live in magnificent houses not decorated with glass, silver, copper, bronze lighting fixtures. A special delicacy of those times to this day is a sconce with crystal pendants and crystal chandeliers.
Classical style
The most effective lighting fixtures, decorated with crystal, will show themselves in the classic style of the interior. We are talking about a restrained classic, sustained in the ascetic spirit of minimalism, and ornate compositions of Rococo, Baroque. An expensive, complex type of combination of textures, ornaments, and decor. Victorian styling allows you to use crystal sconces in the most unusual and multi-level installations.
Classical floor lamps, chandeliers, sconces, even small spotlights with rich airy decor embody aristocratic power, traditionalism and even some monumentality. In terms of working with space, such elements are easy to use for decoration and enhancing the functionality of a home office, living room, hall or hallway.
The stylization of modern apartments from an ancient position, the space is filled with antiques, objects that skillfully imitate ancient chambers, is very relevant. Designers in this case
offer to pay special attention to crystal sconces with bronze decor.
To make the apartments look particularly colorful, you can use stucco molding, heavy expensive textiles and a lot of decorative materials of natural origin. Forged elements look good in the interior. Decor can be combined with lamps and chandeliers.
Modern: a new look at the classics
Art Nouveau is a variety of forms, smooth lines combined with a laconic color scheme. In order for a composition in this style to look really stylish, expensive and organic, you need to have an impeccable taste. However, the highlight even in the most concise and simple design will add lamps, sconces, chandeliers with spectacular crystal decorations.
The most popular option, simple and convenient to use, is a black and white sconce with small crystal inserts. Minor color accents (red, blue, gold) are allowed.
However, in this case, it’s very easy to go too far and go beyond the classical “modern” format.
High tech
This stylistic trend is quite friendly with respect to lighting fixtures of any format. Considering all types of sconces, including crystal, it is important not to make a mistake with the shape and size of these elements.
High-tech is dynamics, a challenge to everyday life, a bold game of ultramodern materials, textures, design techniques. If crystal wall lighting fixtures are presented in an unusual slightly surreal form and bold design, they are likely to fit into the futuristic hi-tech concept.
As the main material for sconces, aluminum, steel, high-quality plastic are chosen. Crystal in this composition should not look too catchy and elaborate. Elements are concise, restrained; usually designs are movable, and the lamps themselves with directional light.
Rustic, loft and other industrial style styles
Crystal sconces with a switch can be a spectacular addition to the apartments of a kind of "urban madman." His apartment is a combination of rough walls and stylish designer furniture. High ceilings, huge windows attract the spaciousness, true freedom of the big city, flooding the premises with sunlight or the glare of street lamps.
It would seem that in such apartments the role of lighting devices is scanty. However, it is on a rough brick wall or around a massive fireplace that delicate and delicate sconces will look incredibly colorful and charismatic. Do not choose too elaborate accessories. It is better to decorate the space with a small number of miniature, but luxurious in their compact size fixtures.
We should also mention such a style as “rustic”. This is more likely not even a style, but a technique for working with attributes in a room, consisting in an interesting aging of things. These are the shabby surfaces of the headsets, cracked wood, worn and scratched metal decor items. Sconces in this style look very interesting, and the crystal decor stands out against the general background.
What styles are better not to work?
It would seem that spectacular sconces are everywhere appropriate, especially with such a noble decor as crystal. However, not all stylistic compositions can be supplemented in this way. It is better not to use crystal lighting in the interior of such styles:
- Typical rustic style, totally devoid of gloss;
- Provence
- Country (the minimum number of such attributes is allowed);
- Japanese style;
- Ethnic installations implying a certain primitivism (Indian, African, Moroccan motifs);
- Eco style;
- Antique style;
- Roman style;
- Flora style.
However, you should not refuse to use a sconce, no matter how categorical the canons of style. In an extreme case, a spectacular crystal can be replaced with another decor, more appropriate in each case.
Types of sconces by type of lighting
Wall lights can be used for local or general lighting.
Locally illuminating a space with a sconce is easiest. Typically, devices are used to illuminate sofas or armchairs, areas for work, leisure, reading locations. Often paired miniature sconces, decorated with luxurious crystal pendants, are hung on both sides of the mirror.
In order to provide general lighting, it is permissible to mount the sconce in small rooms: a nursery, a mini-study, in the hallway, in the corridor. Models with a diffuser that directs light to the ceiling are preferred. Thus, it is possible to achieve soft uniform lighting. Separate options are provided for the bathroom - moisture-proof hermetic modifications.
Types of fixtures by type of mounting
Crystal wall lights can be mounted in completely different ways. Depending on which type is selected, a special atmosphere will be formed.In terms of configuration and mounting principle, all sconces and fixtures can be divided into the following categories:
- Sconce with a tightly pressed ceiling, which is attached to a miniature tripod or a small bracket;
- Lamps with lampshade and bracket;
- Sconce with pendant light;
- Lamps of the directed stream.
Depending on the size, decor, mounting height, each individual type of lamp performs its functions in a special way. More universal are designs with a movable lamp head.
Whatever the choice of sconces by type of attachment, style, configuration and size, it is important to pay particular attention to the quality of such attributes. No matter how insignificant and secondary these decor items seem, their functionality should not be neglected. It is the operational characteristics and durability of the structure that will play an important role in the future, forming an atmosphere of comfort and coziness.
