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 Zelda Medium 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
Bec Brittain Echo 2: White Glass and Brass Led Chandelier
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Echo uses fins of glass radiating from a central axis to reflect beams of light. LED tubes are turned inward to bounce off the glass; the light becomes both softened and multiplied. ...
Brass
Bec Britain Shy 17, 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 Echo Short: White Glass and Brass Led Chandelier
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Echo uses fins of glass radiating from a central axis to reflect beams of light. LED tubes are turned inward to bounce off the glass; the light becomes both softened and multiplied. ...
Brass
Bec Brittain Echo 1, White Glass and Brass LED Chandelier
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Echo uses fins of mirror radiating from a central axis to reflect beams of light. LED tubes are turned inward to bounce off the glass; the light becomes both softened and multiplied....
Brass
Bec Brittain Shy 01 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
"Lorino" Chandelier in Brass & White Glass by Julie Neill for Visual Comfort
By Visual Comfort
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An ode to geometry, Julie Neill's "Lorino' fixtures suggest the faceted forms of gems. The larger top square and smaller bottom square are joined by a series of syncopated triangles,...
Brass
Handmade Suspension Light with Sleek Brass Tubes and Glass
Located in New York, NY
The dynamic lines of this suspension light create an organic flow of sleek brass tubes, as straight as arrows, forming a handmade suspension with glass. The daring angularity of the ...
Brass
Modern Chandelier in Brass Burnished, Linea Collection by Brand van Egmond
By William Brand
Located in Naarden, NL
The Linea, a modern chandelier in a brass burnished finish, is designed by William Brand, founder of Brand van Egmond. Adding emotion and light to any interior, the chandelier is ava...
Metal
Honeycomb Brass and Glass Chandelier
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Honeycomb shaped brass chandelier with twelve light sources in opaline glass globes. The vertical rod can be removed to make the piece a flush mount.
Brass
Modern 8-Light Chandelier by Oggetti D'Arte, Brass & Glass, Italy, New
By Oggetti D'Arte
Located in Calenzano, FI
8-light chandelier in golden brass and clear glass. Each object is handcrafted and the care for every detail makes each item unique in its kind. It can be combined with the 1-light ...
Bronze
Chandelier in Glass and Brass by Raak
By RAAK
Located in Antwerp, BE
Glass and brass chandelier by RAAK, Netherlands. There are four extra glass elements.
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.
