Thursday, May 24, 2012

TAKE ONE DOWN AND PASS IT AROUND

Although they've been around for several years now, I first saw one of these multi-tasking chandeliers a couple of years ago in the kitchenware department  at the Bon Marché  in Paris. The one above hangs over diners in a rustic restaurant in Corsica. The wine glasses are individually suspended from forked prongs to make removal easy for use and/or cleaning. Otherwise what a terrible dust trap or nid à poussière.

Vocabulary
un nid:  a nest
la poussière:  dust
un verre à vin:  a wine glass
un verre de vin:  a glass of wine
un lustre:  a chandelier (in English)
un chandelier:  a candlestick; a candleholder

Photo courtesy of Pierre Lechanteux
©2012 P.B. Lecron


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