After a long search for the perfect chandelier to go in this Spanish living room with pitched wood ceiling, I found it through
www.liveauctioneers.com . This website is different from ebay in that it's a collection of private auction houses from all over the country and Europe that operate independently with their own terms, conditions and buyer's premiums. Although you can have a dashboard with liveauctioneers in which to keep track of the auctions you want to follow, you register to bid with each auction house you wish to place bids with.
The particular auction was with a company called Copake Auction Inc. I won the piece for $20 plus the buyer's 15% premium which brought it to a whopping $23. Shipping crating and sending such a large piece was not cheap, $300. However, that said, it still makes this light fixture a bargain.
This is the way it appeared as a tumbled heap on live auctioneers.com :
Here it is installed
Yeaah! Soo pretty at night
