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Lindsey Adelman
"I find [light] interesting because it's an immaterial substance. This idea of working with something that's about effect; it's intangible, you're really shaping form to maximise a lighting effect."
Lindsey Adelman designs and produces lighting in Manhattan. Inspired by structural forms found in nature, her signature branching chandeliers incorporate raw materials such as hand-blown glass, porcelain, brass, bronze, leather, and wood.
She discovered Industrial Design while working at the Smithsonian, when she and met a woman carving french fries out of foam for an exhibition. Thinking that looked like more fun than her editorial job, she left to get a degree in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1996.
The Lindsey Adelmen Studio was founded in 2006, and has grown into a team of 20 who work collaboratively in each aspect of the business. The studio’s signature aesthetic was born with the release of its very first product — the Branching Bubble chandelier, which combines the organic nature of blown glass with the more rational machined components.
“Lighting design is at the core of what we do, but we also work with an expanded materials palette, indulging our preoccupation with a room’s oft-neglected spaces, to create products ranging from concrete tiles to wallpaper, ” explains the studio’s website.
Lindsey’s work has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Design Miami, and Nilufar Gallery. The body of work has grown to include vessels, jewelry, blankets, wallpaper, tiles, and video.
Lindsey continues to be moved by experimentation, cross-pollination, and joining forces to create what does not yet exist. She lives with her designer husband Ian and their son Finn in Brooklyn.
Lights Designed by Lindsey Adelman
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