Mexico City boasts a booming design industry with a unique charm. The Zona MACO, or the Zona Mexico Contemporary Art Fair, is just one of the dozens of reasons to pay attention to the sprawling Central American metropolis. Our Oculo Modern Pendant Light was featured at the stand of ADN Galeria, a popular gallery located in Mexico City, known for their focus on design objects “from different time periods, origins and styles.”
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An integral part in decorating any interior is creating its basic atmosphere, and what better way to achieve this than to begin with lighting. Our array of decorative blown-glass pendants and hand-made chandeliers allow you to personalize color, shape and metal finish in order to select what is best for bringing out the personality of any room in your home. Each fixture’s unique silhouette has a subtle elegance without understating the sharp modernity of its design.
Pendants - a worthy option for good lighting decor
Spark Chandelier - a unique take on lighting decor
Pack Chandelier - engaging lighting decor
An example of good lighting decor featuring Niche Modern Stamen Pendants
Niche Modern Pack 9 chandelier in the Made in Beacon book
We’re delighted to join several local artisans and manufacturers in a new collaborative partnership. Randall Martin, a local graphic designer, has been behind the scenes, crafting this booklet for your viewing pleasure. It speaks for itself, a book of working artisans, living and working in Beacon, and you can view it here, or order your own copy to keep at home! It’s a great pleasure, and deep comfort, to live in Beacon, discovering its roots in hard work and creativity, again, and to work among these local leaders in Beacon’s momentum forward as a design capital north of New York City, in the Hudson River Valley.
Featured in the book are: Mod-Craft – local ceramic tile maker Wickham – local woodworker Atlas Industries – local modular furniture and shelving manufacturer Architectural Glass – local architectural glass manufacturer Niche Modern – yours truly, local blown glass pendants and modern chandeliers manufacturers
We recently discovered a now forgotten GOLD MINE of Niche Modern pendant lights. The location was underneath the vaulted ceiling of the main dining room at the old Hollywood Athletic Club, last open to the public under the name “Citrus at Social,” in Downtown Los Angeles. The room was a perfect home for our Terra and Binary pendants.
You can view the source of our excitement below:
Or take a gander:
Before:
Dining Room before Citrus at Social
Dining Room before Citrus at Social
And after:
Niche Modern Terra and Binary Pendant Lights in the old Citrus at Social
Niche Modern Terra and Binary Pendant Lights at the old Citrus at Social
Niche Modern’s transparent and opaque Phaeton pendants.
- Level Magazine 2008-2009
Level magazine showcases our many glass colors in their 2008/2009 spread of the Aurora and Phaeton pendants. The Pharos pendants share a very similar silhouette with the Phaeton.
Niche Modern pendant lighting feature in Level Magazine
Hand blown Phaeton lighting pendants of transparent glass
Hand made Phaeton pendant lighting in opaque glass
“Light Fixtures by Jeremy Pyles for Niche: In botany, a flower is considered perfect if it contains both male (stamen) and female (pistil) reproductive organs. And while Mr. Pyles was definitely focused on the masculine character of both his Stamen (right) and Bell Jar(middle) designs with their elongated bulbs, the delicate structure of the surrounding glass is unmistakably feminine. His Terra Quattro fixture (left) contains a corresponding number of standard bulbs. Each is available in smoke, dark gray, and a particularly stunning amber tone.”
– Dwell, September 2005
Niche Modern offers it’s hand-blown glass pendants in several striking colors. You can see a color overview of our lights, including the Stamen, Bell-Jar, and Terra – as featured in Dwell Magazine, detailed here.
