Bec Brittain Lighting
Handcrafting hardware allowed her to unify her diverse.
Bec brittain lighting. Online catalog of furnishings and design by bec brittain. Collections browse all aries shy echo formerly known as themis zelda helix vise seed maxhedron. After studying product design parsons philosophy nyu and architecture the architectural association brittain began her career designing and producing bespoke door hardware. Bec draws from these different modes of thinking and making to create relationships between normally disparate elements.
Mercury linear leds black suede tassels obsidian and jasper stones. Bec brittain is a new york based lighting and product designer driven by a love of luxurious materials intuitive forms and forward thinking technology. When maxhedron is turned off its mirrored surfaces seem both present and elusive as they reflect their surroundings. Representing a creative evolution from previous collections brittain s flag series pose an interplay between led beam lights and large flag shaped sheets of glass.
Maxhedron is a study in the ways that light and reflection transform materials. Shy 01 shy 02 shy 06 shy 08 1 shy 15 shy 17 shy 18 shy sconce shy beam 01 02 pair. Bec by contrast works in a more engineered way designing intricate parts for manufacture. Formerly known as themis 6 sconce formerly known as themis 27 sconce formerly.
Forming an entirely new visual language the pieces rising from floor to wall can be arranged in countless formats. When the fixture is turned on these seemingly solid surfaces become translucent transforming the lights into a constellation of points. Aries iv i aries pendant i i aries v i aries viii i aries xi i aries xi ii aries sconce iii i. Echo 1 echo 2 echo 3 echo 4 echo short.
She views these pieces as her kit of parts from which she creates a multitude of forms. Bec brittain studied industrial design at parsons earned a ba in philosophy from new york university and received an architecture degree from the architectural association in london. Her aim is to create work eliciting both an immediate sensual reaction and a more gradual. Collection includes modern floor and ceiling lighting and more.