After nearly a year of planning, Meyda recently completed production in its manufacturing facilities in Yorkville, N.Y. (outside of Utica, N.Y.).

Designed and engineered with state-of-the-art technology and green energy efficiency for a local performing arts theater, the Meyda Chandelier illuminates with 328 LEDs made by Philips Luxeon (same LEDs used for New Year’s Eve Ball-Drop in Times Square) using 1,120 total watts (equivalent of energy used for one drip coffeemaker), instead of conventional incandescent bulbs requiring 7,435 watts (energy equivalent of 17 refrigerators).

What a difference! LEDs have a lamplife of 15 years or more, unlike incandescent bulbs that need to be replaced every two years or less.

Made of steel, blown-glass and acrylic, the lighting fixture is 35 feet in diameter, 17 feet tall, and 7,000 pounds.

It is assembled in several sections of tubular steel trusses, plus a dozen sections of other steel trusses, framework and decorative embellishments—all, which are being shipped, reassembled and installed this week.

The chandelier, hand-finished in antique gold and bronze, was designed to complement the theater’s Mexican baroque Moorish theme. Each truss includes a steel arm featuring a hand-painted Green and White, Red glass-eyed serpent spiraling down.

At the tip of each arm is a bobeche (eight in all), each with a diameter of 36 inches and designed to hold seven candles, ranging up to two feet in height.

The bottom of each bobeche has been designed with a Red and Blue acrylic to coordinate with the nuances of the theater’s color scheme. Sculpted steel candlesticks simulating wax drippings, feature blown-glass diffusers replicating candletip flames.