$5,000 Chandelier for the Birds, Birds, Birds
So, you found a few extra grand in the couch cushions, and now you’re looking to buy some lighting. Well, here you go: Ingo Maurer’s Birds, Birds, Birds chandelier has 24 unique, low-voltage bulbs adorned with goose feather wings, so it looks like a flock of birds in mid-flight below your ceiling. Everything is held together with tin-plated metal parts and colored wires. It’s not a small chandelier (hey, if you’re dropping $5,000 on a light, you don’t want something people are going to miss), and it measures 74.8″ high and 47.3″ in diameter. For your money, you receive a full set of bulbs plus six spares, so you don’t have wonder what you’re going to do when the funky-shaped bulbs burn out, at least for a while.