Tropical Paradise is a hand painted chandelier by Jenny Floravita. Forged fixture shown here is Floravita’s Contemporary Swirl and has a height of 29 inches as pictured. This fixture style also comes in shorter heights. Installation ready.
Through the years I’ve had several chandelier collectors transport chandeliers from the mainland (here) to one of the Hawaiian islands or Alaska by plane. This usually works fine if your chandelier is packed properly with a lot of bubble wrap and also boxed with a couple inches around the edges. Even better, if the box has styrofoam around the edges that also greatly helps protect glass art because when the plane lands, there are tremendous g-forces at work. You can have luggage slam into the glass if it is not protected well enough.
Recently this happened to a gorgeous all plumeria chandelier that was very special. In fact, before I sold it to collectors in Kauai’i I had hung it in my own living room. It just happened to be the one piece that really spoke to my clients so I gave it to them. It broke, likely in the landing, en route to Kauai’i.
Sad as it was, I painted a different but equally beautiful chandelier my collectors and you can see picture of the piece above, titled Tropical Paradise.
If you fly business or first class, often there is a special closet for storage. As it’s not guaranteed, it just depends on the plane. You have to know the guidelines in advance before you show up with your glass chandelier. And I do recommend having a packing company wrap and box your chandelier. I believe with my collectors, they only had it bubble wrapped and that wasn’t enough for if luggage slammed into it upon landing. I will admit that I was comfortable with having clients transport chandeliers via plane, I no longer recommend it. It’s worth the extra cost to have your chandelier fully insured and shipped into these more remote areas. Yes, it costs more but so does everything else…when we are talking locations like the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska. It’s a luxury to go/live there, trust me I know!
It’s just part of the overall price of paradise. So a fine work of art should perhaps travel by a route where it can be adequately insured.
