What's A Girandole?

I'm putting a girandole  in a client's bathroom and I am soooo excited about it.  They are not common as electric lights, and this one just stole my design heart.  It's going in a powder room, with grasscloth behind it...

 

 Okay, so what a girandole? Here's what Wikpedia says...

 A Girandole (from French, in turn from Italian girandola) is an ornamental branched candlestick or lighting device often composed of several lights. Girandoles came into use about the second half of the 17th century, and were commonly made and used in pairs.
A girandole has always been, comparatively speaking, a luxurious appliance for lighting, and in the great 18th century period of French house decoration, the famous ciseleurs designed some exceedingly beautiful examples. A great variety of metals have been used for the purpose. Sometimes, as in the case of candlesticks, girandoles have been made in hardwoods. Gilded bronze has been a very frequent medium, but for table use silver is still the favorite material.
Girandoles, or lighting devices, have also been attached to looking glasses and furniture. Some popular mirrors, especially the convex style, and some large dressing glasses of the 19th century were known as "girandoles" because of the lighting devices mounted to their sides.

 Here's an example of the convex mirror style...

When I was searching for images to show you, I also came across the one below, which lead to a great blog on antiques called Buzz on Antiques.  (Don't you just love blogland?)

So it might be a stretch to call my client's new mirror with lights a girandole, as it is is certainly not ornate, but I'm taking some artistic license.  It just makes it sound all the more fabulous :)

What do you think -- would you trade the expected mirror with bathroom lights on either side for an all-in-one style?

Talk to you soon,

Carol