Word: candelabra
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with laurel festoons. On the east and west ends a brighter light came in from the Dining Room and Periodical Room, both of which were illuminated with strings of Japanese lanterns. An attractive feature of the Game and Writing Rooms was the festooning of yachting flags. Red globes and candelabra with a profusion of palms and plants carried out the general color scheme of red and green, while pictures, banners, cushions, lamps, and flowers in and about the boxes were delightfully effective...
...Architectural Department has just received two shipments of valuable casts of urns and candelabra made after the originals which are now in the Vatican Museum at Rome. With them is a cast of the entablature of the Pantheon, showing the cornice, frieze, architrave, and capital of its columns. These new casts will soon be put upon exhibition in the Architectural Building...