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 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
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 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, Grey Glass & Polished Nickel 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 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 Resolute Hang Flags, Mirror and Polished Nickel LED Chandelier
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Resolute Flags fixture is two layers of angular two way mirror glass forms are suspended from the ceiling, incorporating linear led profiles wrapped in polished nickel. Flags thu...
Brass
Bec Brittain, "Echo 4", Pendant, 2022
By Bec Brittain
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Echo uses mirrored fins, radiating from a central axis, to reflect beams of light. LED tubes are turned inward to bounce off the mirror, thereby softening and amplifying that light. ...
Brass
Bec Brittain, "Echo 3"
By Bec Brittain
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Echo uses mirrored fins, radiating from a central axis, to reflect beams of light. LED tubes are turned inward to bounce off the mirror, thereby softening and amplifying that light. ...
Brass
Salla Chandelier by Cameron Design House, Polished Brass, 85 cm
Located in Geneve, CH
Salla Chandelier by Cameron Design House Dimensions: D 85 cm Materials: Polished brass. Available in 85, 100, or 130 cm in diameter. Available in...
Metal
Bonnie Config 3 Contemporary LED Chandelier, Brass or Nickel, Art
By Ovature Studios
Located in Torslanda, SE
The Bonnie range is designed around the stylized form of a saffron flower, known around the world for its valuable beauty, fragrance, and essence. Each organic flower-like form is s...
Aluminum, Brass, Nickel
Bonnie Config 3 Large Contemporary LED Chandelier, Brass or Nickel, Large, Art
By Ovature Studios
Located in Torslanda, SE
The Bonnie range is designed around the stylized form of a saffron flower, known around the world for its valuable beauty, fragrance and essence. Each organic flower-like form is st...
Aluminum, Brass, Nickel
Bec Brittain, "Echo 2", Pendant, 2022
By Bec Brittain
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Echo uses mirrored fins, radiating from a central axis, to reflect beams of light. LED tubes are turned inward to bounce off the mirror, thereby softening and amplifying that light. ...
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.
