Self-taught designer Bec Brittain grew up surrounded by creative minds: Her mother is an artist, her father had a woodworking business, and her paternal grandparents and step-grandfather were architects.
In 2011, after serving as a design director for Lindsey Adelman, Brittain founded her own studio in Brooklyn and created the SHY light. The piece, whose name derives from the initials of her architect grandmother, Sarah Hitchcock Yerkes, was an immediate success, launching Brittain’s career.
The designer moved her studio to Manhattan in 2016 and opened an adjacent showroom in 2017.
Brittain makes all her products in New York with the help of local artisans and fabricators. A project called Aries, which was presented by 1stDibs in a 2018 exhibition during the Salone del Mobile in Milan, is an ode to Olafur Eliasson’s set design for the ballet Tree of Codes.
Find Bec Brittain chandeliers, wall lights, table lamps and other furnishings on 1stDibs.
Bec Brittain Helix Short Hanging Brass Led Lamp with Marble Counterweight
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Helix is comprised of custom brass hardware and LED tubes wrapping around a central support. Available with disc or cravat counterweights. Ellipse counterweight available in White Marble, Black Marble, and Absolute Black Granite...
Granite, Marble, Brass
Bec Brittain Helix Floor, Brass LED Floor Lamp with Marble Base
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Helix is comprised of custom brass hardware and LED tubes wrapping around a central support. Available with a variety of stone bases. Stone base is available in White Marble, Black ...
Granite, Marble, Brass
Bec Brittain Shy 15, Brass Led Chandelier
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Shy light uses the spare beauty of thin LED tubes to define the edges of its shape; in this way the function of the piece is created by its form, and vice-versa. It is also inspi...
Brass
Bec Brittain Shy Beam Pair, Brass LED Floor Lamp
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Shy light uses the spare beauty of thin LED tubes to define the edges of its shape; in this way the function of the piece is created by its form, and vice-versa. It is also inspi...
Brass
Bec Brittain Shy 08.1 Brass LED Chandelier
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Shy light uses the spare beauty of thin LED tubes to define the edges of its shape; in this way the function of the piece is created by its form, and vice-versa. It is also inspi...
Brass
Bec Brittain Zelda Orbits Large, Brass Led Chandelier
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Zelda juxtaposes the powerful materiality of brass-encased LED tubing with gracefully suspending planar forms. This light comes in multiple shapes, sizes, and configurations, and sea...
Brass
Modern Pendant Uplight Brass SAX led
By Atelier Boucquet
Located in Roeselare, BE
Pendant in brass uplighting led light.
Brass
Modern Pendant Uplight Brass SAX led
By Atelier Boucquet
Located in Roeselare, BE
Pendant in brass uplighting led light.
Brass
Modern Pendant Uplight Brass SAX led
By Atelier Boucquet
Located in Roeselare, BE
Pendant in brass uplighting led light.
Brass
Demetra Shiny Gold Metal Pendant Lamp 2 by Alabastro Italiano
Located in Geneve, CH
Demetra Shiny Gold Metal Pendant Lamp 2 by Alabastro Italiano Dimensions: D 12 x W 12 x H 60 cm. Materials: White alabaster and metal. Available in different finishes: Shiny Silver,...
Alabaster, Metal
XL Brass Tubing Arch Pendant with Hand Blown Glass Diffuser
Located in York, CA
Concord XL Cactus Pendant: There is power in numbers when it comes to the Cactus pendant. While charming when suspended on its own, the overall effect of the large curved arms is far...
Steel
Modern Pendant Uplight Brass Sax
By Atelier Boucquet
Located in Roeselare, BE
Pendant in brass uplighting.
Brass
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In "Paraciphers," now on view at Emma Scully Gallery in New York, Brittain introduces works that were more than a decade in the making.
