this is beautiful, but not worth $400 for recycled bottles. actually, i doubt pottery barn used recycled bottles, those are probably brand new. the diy one's have more character and cost significantly less.

who needs to go through all the work to make a chandelier when you can just drop a flower in a bottle and stick it in a window sill? We did this at our wedding and it brought in beautiful color to the whole place.

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I admit I waited until it was too late to take the labels off, but the guests liked the quirkiness. Several people, including my mom, took the idea home with them. The plus is you get to enjoy the contents beforehand :)

At an On the Border restaurant here in RI there are two giant bottle chandeliers made of beer and Corona bottles over on the bar side of the restaurant. I had tried to take a picture with my phone cause I thought a bottle chandelier was pretty nifty.

i love this idea but they are all so similar. did you come across any fixtures that had manipulated the bottles in some way.

Our design office created two wine bottle chandeliers for a custom wine store interior we built for Amanti Vino in Montclair, NJ.

We used recycled bottles, soaked off the labels and cut the bottoms off the bottles to use in the backlit entry display.

Are there any instructions for how to make a wine bottle chandelier? I keep all of my wine bottles for various projects (many have become vases and I'm learning how to cut glass and somehow turn them into drinking glasses)...but I would LOVE to make a chandelier!

I love the one marissagregory linked.

I'm not into the wine bottle chandelier look. It looks too much like a clever college student effort.

There are so many beautiful chandeliers out there -- and then the modern hanging lights MoMA offers, etc., that I just wouldn't make this the option I would choose.

I don't like this either.

I'm in favor of repurposing that transforms objects so that upon viewing the final outcome, one sees first the new form and not just the old bits wired together.

This really just looks like a college bottle collection and doesn't do a lot for me.

I love Pottery Barn's idea with this piece but feel it could have been so much better and more rustic and authentic. I have a benchwright table (the one pictured in the catalogue) and wanted a chandelier to match and found a company in California that makes these amazing chandeliers. Unlike the Pottery Barn piece the lights are inside the bottles and the base is an oak riddling rack that used to be for fermenting champagne. I bought 2 round chandeliers and they look AWESOME!! Quite the talking point at dinner parties and they produce such a warm light. sherwoodchandeliers.com