New York designer Bec Brittain has created lights with candy-coloured stands, ivory glass shades and decorative strips of suede for her latest collection.
Brittain created 27 lights including table lamps, hanging pendants and sconces for the Gemini Collection. She produced designs as pairs but made subtle differences between them, such as a knotted cord versus a braided cord, different sizes and lengths, and use of colour.
Net Globe lamps feature a diamond-shaped ivory glass globe surrounded by a decorative brass basket
"Creating the Gemini Collection allowed me to play with the idea of what constitutes a twin: is it two separate objects"" Brittain said. "Is it one object that seems to have split into two parts" Are they mimicking each other"" They are sold as individuals that she imagines as twins "separated at birth". Some are also grouped into threes, which the designer calls triplets.
Long cylindrical pendants painted with candy-like colours attach to small cube-shaped dimmers to form Hanging Beams
Brittain took cues myriad of paired objects that appear in the natural world and pulled from those examples to create the works. "I think of my works as being creatures, or having a creature-like aspect, and there is something soothing about these pieces not being alone, of having a companion," she added.
"The final object stays close to its original inspiration, without sacrificing its essence through concerns abou...