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 FKA THEMIS Six Sconce, Marble Bracket, 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....
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
Aries III.I Wall Sconce with Faceted Glass and LED lights
By Bec Brittain
Located in Long Island City, NY
Aries was inspired by the artist Olafur Eliasson’s concept and set design for the ballet Tree of Codes where the dancers wore all-black suits highlighted with LEDs. The Brushed Brass...
Aluminum
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 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 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
Ruth Sconce - Opal Glass
By RTO Lighting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The studious Ruth Wall Sconce features a hand-blown glass shade and bent brass arm captured by bespoke brass hardware. Choose either a clear glass shade for bright and direct light o...
Brass
Float Two Arm Glass Globe Wall Sconce by Lamp Shaper
Located in Geneve, CH
Float Two Arm Glass Globe Wall Sconce by Lamp Shaper Dimensions: D 117 x W 81.5 x H 53.5 cm. Materials: Brass and glass. Different finishes available: raw brass, aged brass, burnt b...
Brass
Aura, Hand Blown Glass Sconce, Kalin Asenov
By Kalin Asenov
Located in Savannah, GA
The design of Aura highlights the clear form and color of the glass. The half frosted glass globe in the center of the piece allows for equal illumination of the environment and the colored glass disk, creating intricate wall shadow. Please contact the studio for custom colors. The glass work in the Bloom series is created by Ron Martinez at Hostess City Hot Glass, Savannah GA...
Brass
Convoluted Sconce 1 – Modern Milled Aluminum and Hand Blown White Glass Sconce
By Jordan Maurice
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sconce diptych draws inspiration from the familiar forms of foam and plastic packing materials. Often discarded as fleeting remnants of the online shopping age, these shapes are...
Aluminum
Murano blown Glass Wall Sconce, Saint Germain, Design Giorgia Brusemini
By Barovier&Toso
Located in Venice, IT
A wall sconce of compact size that do not, however, lose any of its poetry and enchantment. A product made entirely by hand in Venetian crystal, featuring a distinctive sphere made w...
Glass
Midcentury-Inspired Handmade Brass & Opal Glass Wall Sconce, Made-to-Order
By Lightmaker Studio
Located in Kingston, Ontario
With curvaceous shapes and a nipped centre, Betty is a modern take on midcentury era design. Sculptural mold-blown glass spheres glow in opal opaque, semi-opaque colors or clear glas...
Brass
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