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The Chandelier Blog at Michael McHale Designs

  • Keen for "The Keen"

    Keen for "The Keen"

    We're excited to showcase our latest collaboration with The Keen (1708 Lombard St.) out in Philadelphia. Their delightful menu captures good ole American flavors and flair, and well...we like how they've lit up the place. I'd personally recommend the  pig...

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  • Luxury Design meets Smart home

    Luxury Design meets Smart home

    We've always been curious how we can leverage innovation with our sophisticated case of style, and at some point, it was a great challenge. The Bushwick Lantern fuses these two worlds beautifully and takes lighting to a whole new level....

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  • The Versatile banqueting chandelier at IJorere

    The Versatile banqueting chandelier at IJorere

    Several years ago architect Ola Morin-Muhammed opened IJorere (pronounced E-JAW-RAY-RAY) an upscale event space for weddings and celebrations in Elgin, IL, a suburb of Chicago, and he made her Tribeca Collection Banqueting Chandelier the focus of the space. "Our chandelier is THE conversation piece of the...

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  • Zagat's 20 hottest new york restaurants

    Zagat's 20 hottest new york restaurants

    We were very happy to see that The Ribbon - the latest eatery from The Blue Ribbon Group -- made Zagat's list of its 20 hottest restaurants for 2015. Michael McHale Designs provided The Ribbon with over 20 spectacular fixtures,...

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  • The Gates Nightclub, Chelsea New York

    The Gates Nightclub, Chelsea New York

    Michael McHale Designs was fortunate to have provided the bar chandeliers and the sconces for the short-lived and much-missed Gates Nightclub on Eighth Avenue in New York.  The Gates was a well-known venue for celebrity birthday parties, television production parties,...

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  • Decor Girl

    Decor Girl

    Decor Girl Lisa M. Smith had a look at Michael McHale Designs a few years ago and we thought we'd link back to that interview, which you can see here. "From this one picture I knew I wasn’t going to...

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  • Steampunk Chandeliers and Steampunk Lighting

    Steampunk Chandeliers and Steampunk Lighting

    Michael McHale Designs' chandeliers have sympathetic elements with the steampunk aesthetic, but the differences are too many for our modernist industrial style chandeliers and designs to be considered steampunk.Steampunk has certainly emerged as a design and artistic aesthetic.  Insomuch as it...

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