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.
Seed Floor Lamp
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Seed takes its name from seed crystals—the microscopic structures that catalyze the formation of larger crystalline systems. I was drawn to this concept as a way to explore nature no...
Marble, Brass
Bec Brittain FKA Themis Surface Mount, Brass LED and Hand Blown Glass
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Originally inspired by Victorian balancing toys, Themis combines handblown glass diffusers with an elegant marble and brass bracket to provide a soft glow. The forms are derived from...
Brass
Bec Brittain FKA THEMIS 27 Balancing Sconce, Marble Bracket, and Handblown Glass
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Originally inspired by Victorian balancing toys, Themis combines handblown glass diffusers with an elegant marble and brass bracket to provide a soft glow....
Marble, Brass
Bec Brittain Shy Sconce 2', Customizable Brass Sconce
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 Sconce: Customizable Brass Sconce
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 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
Blossom camelia table lamp with jointed arm
Located in Firenze, FI
The table version of the Blossom Camelia floor lamp has the same characteristics that make it unique, the marble base that can be customized in different colors, the polished brass finishes and the aluminum lampshade...
Marble, Aluminum, Brass
Still Table Lamp
By Stilux
Located in Petworth, GB
A large table lamp by Stilux. Produced in Italy in 1960. On a marble base with an articulated brass and lacquered arm with a huge black plexiglass glass shade with a white reflector....
Marble, Brass
Riddle Table Lamp by Bert Frank
Located in Geneve, CH
Riddle table lamp by Bert Frank Dimensions: 18 x 35 x H 47 cm Materials: Brass Available finishes: Brass and black All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sol...
Brass
Halian Table Lamp
Located in Paris, FR
Table Lamp Halian with polished white marble base and with hammered solid brass shade, in vintage patina finish. 1 Bulb, bulb not included.
Marble, Brass
Table Lamp by King and Miranda for Arteluce
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A 'palio' table lamp with black square bases supporting twin white glass diffusers and a curved aluminum "parachute" shade on bent rod supports.
Metal
Stilux Milano Table Lamp
Located in Montréal, QC
Stilux Milano table lamp manufactured in the 1950s. Copper anodised aluminium cone shade, enamelled steel pivot and stem, copper plated V shap...
Copper, Steel
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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.
