There is a stylish chandelier with a modern style in Fine Arts Museum which had been donated to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (the second king of Pahlavi dynasty) by Gulbenkian, the collector and oil trader.
This chandelier has a height of 1.30m and is in the shape of a flower with 8 crystal petals that has motifs of olive leaves and fruits.
This chandelier was made by René Lalique, the French artist.
René Jules Lalique (6 April 1860,Ay, Marne– 5 May 1945, Paris) was a French glass designer known for his creations of perfume bottles, vases, jewellery, chandeliers, clocks and automobile hood ornaments. He was born in the French village of Ay on 6 April 1860 and died 5 May 1945. He started a glassware firm, named after him, which still remains successful.
His early life was spent learning the methods of design and art he would use in his later life. At the age of two, his family moved to a suburb of Paris, but traveled to Ay for summer holidays. These trips influenced Lalique's later naturalistic glasswork. In 1872, when he was twelve, he entered the Collège Turgot where he started drawing and sketching. With the death of his father two years later, Lalique began working as an apprentice to goldsmith Louis Aucoc in Paris and attended evening classes. He worked there from 1874-1876 and subsequently spent two years at the Crystal Palace School of Art Sydenham, London.