Lobmeyr Crystal

I thought I had heard of all the great crystal companies – Waterford, Baccarat, Steuben, Swarovski. But I was delighted to discover Lobmeyr when I attended an event Saturday night at Boston’s Ritz Carlton. I could barely keep my eyes from drifting away from my tablemates and up to the ceiling, which was dotted with incredible starburst crystal chandeliers. I had to know where they came from.

Turns out, I have great taste. The chandeliers are based on an original designed in 1965 by Lobmeyr’s Hans Harald Rath for the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

After a bit of online digging, I learned that Lobmeyr, which was established in Austria in 1823, has made chandeliers for opera houses all over the world, in addition to other iconic venues such as the Austrian Embassy in London, Vienna’s Moulin Rouge nightclub, and the Kremlin’s Great Hall of the Supreme Soviet. The company also produced drawings for chandeliers in the mosques of Mecca and Medina.

Many fabulous Lobmeyr designs are available in the United States through Moss.  You can get the Met Chandelier there, in addition to other products based on the same design, such as:

The Met Table Lamp

The Met Candelabra

The Met Candle Stick

And the Met Collection Brooch

To see more of the dozens of tantalizing Lobmeyr pieces at Moss, just go to the Web site and enter “Lobmeyr” in the search box on the left. You’re in for a big treat.