Chandeliers have been a symbol of opulence and affluence for so long, that man has discovered strange, beautiful and most of all, monster-sized ways to make them! While we are well aware that it is not always size that counts most in how impressive something is, we’ve compiled this preliminary list of the 7 biggest chandeliers in the world, to give you a bit of inspiration about your own at home. While yours may not be architect-designed, and if it were a hundredth the size of one of these, still mightn’t fit through your front door, it’s your own! It’ll be a tiny piece of luxury, to remind you of the dedication and fascination of some people with their own chandeliers! We would like to point out that this is a preliminary list, given that we don’t have access to every chandelier in the world, and would love to hear from you if you know of any larger ones! Simply go to the contact us page, drop us an email and include pictures or links, if you can.

7th place - Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet, Illionois

The smallest biggest chandelier in the world (!) is in the United States, in the Rialto Square Theatre, Joliet, Illionois. The chandelier in the Theatre is known as the ‘Duchess’ – she took two years to be born, and cost one and a half million dollars before her birthday. That was one and a half million back in the 1920s … when you could buy a house for a person’s weekly wage nowadays. Elsewhere in the theatre, the arch between the Esplanade and the Rotunda was copied from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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