While there is little documentation surrounding the designer’s lighting it remains readily identifiable. Andr Arbus viewed lighting as an integral part of furnishing – if not the furniture itself – the ultimate polish the unspoken refinement to scale and proportion. Circa 1940s. Drawn from a neoclassical vocabulary this grandly scaled chandelier includes a symbolically perfect circular antique brass support and five torch-like lamps each with a frosted glass candle cup. The most distinctive feature