French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have collaborated with Swarovski to design six bronze fountains embellished with over 3,000 crystals on the Avenue de Champs-Elysées in Paris.
Positioned in a pool of water, each fountain is comprised of a central bronze mast that supports three angled-poles suspended from the top of the structure.

The three branches feature 258 custom-made Swarovski crystal elements arranged as circular cuffs around each pole and illuminated by LEDs.
Each structure slowly rotates as water rises up the masts and cascades down through the crystal-covered tubes into the pool below, causing them to shine "like a moving chandelier with different light moods by day and by night".
During daytime, sunlight plays with the running water and crystals to create continuously changing, glistening effects, while at night the LEDs softly illuminate the arms of the structures.
Positioned around the Champs-Elysées Marcel-Dassault roundabout, this is the first time Swarovski crystals have been used in a permanent outdoor installation in a public space.
The Bouroullec brothers worked with Swarovski's engineering team in Austria to create 3,060 durable faceted-crystals for the project, as well as the LED system used to illuminate them.

"Swarovski's technical expertise also allowed us to design a crystal that would withstand harsh weather conditions and environmental changes due to its composition and mode of assembly," said Ronan Bouroullec...