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 Twin Vise, Double Fade Hand Blown Glass and Brass Chandelier
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Vise captures a handblown glass globe within brass claws machined to follow the gentle curvature of the glass. The illumination is set high inside the glo...
Brass
Bec Brittain Zelda Links Medium, Brass LED Chandelier with Glass Diffusers
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 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 Echo 3, Mirror 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
Angel Pendant Lamp by Sabrina Landini, Art Glass & Brass, Handmade in Italy
By Sabrina Landini
Located in Pietrasanta, IT
ANGEL pentant crystal craquelet ball with silvered glass ring Bright eyes from a distant planet For more than 22 years the art of “hand-made in Italy” has given life to the Maison Sabrina Landini, who’s brilliant spirit leads to the foundation of the Atelier. Here beats the heart of a living heritage, that of craftsman-ship. Such vibrant energy comes into life in Sabrina Landini’s DNA by revealing the unpublished silvering technique, thanks to a deep dive into glass life. Becoming the hallmark that leaves the signature on her work, preserved in our manufacture. Angel, inspired by the universal love, drawn as a planet, with its clean lines, Angel will offer a bright sheen, thanks to an amazing crystal craquele boule surrounded by a movable ring...
Crystal, Brass
Mid-Century Modern Brass & Hand Blown Translucent/ Topaz Murano Glass Chandelier
By Mazzega
Located in New York, NY
This sophisticated Mid-Century Modern chandelier was realized in Italy, circa 1970 by the esteemed atelier of Mazzega. The fixture offers eight cylindrical brass rods of staggered le...
Brass
Modern Pendant with Colored Glass in a Brass Burnished Finish, Ersa Collection
By William Brand
Located in Naarden, NL
Named after the ancient Greek Goddess of dew, this Ersa modern pendant in a brass burnished finish with iridescent glass spheres offers light with a sculptural touch for every possible position or space. The Ersa pendant is available with one, two or three mount-blown glass spheres – following the form of dewdrops on branches – and can be used as a single lighting piece or grouped together, creating a larger and more dramatic statement. Ersa, named after the ancient Greek goddess of morning dew, draws inspiration from that most magical moment of the day: the sunrise. Early morning, when the first light of day sends the darkness of the night away, we can see one of nature’s wonders on display: dew drops formed throughout the night. Just as the change of temperature on a surface creates dew, also new finishes and materials are born under shifting conditions. The iridescence on our glass, leading to the gradual change of color as the angle of view or illumination changes, radiates a stunning glow. The Ersa Collection...
Metal
Modern Pendant with Colored Glass in a Brass Burnished Finish, Louise
By William Brand
Located in Naarden, NL
The Louise is a modern pendant in a brass burnished finish. With almost carefree delight, William Brand designed the Louise collection. A simple frame, decorated in a pleasing rhy...
Metal
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
Modernist Brushed Brass & Smoked Organic Hand-Blown Murano Glass Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
This unique and elegant Modernist Brushed Brass & Smoked Organic Hand-Blown Murano Glass Chandelier originates from Itay during the 21st Century. This Chandelier features an array of...
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.
