Studio chandelier design
A chandelier designed in 2021, reinterpreting the wagon-wheel fixture archetype — a circular open frame ringed with candle-style lights, descending from a central canopy through angled support rods — for the modern farmhouse direction that defined residential interiors that year. The wagon-wheel chandelier carries an Americana lineage going back to pioneer-era lighting, when actual wagon wheels were repurposed into ceiling fixtures, and the form had returned to the front of farmhouse and rustic-transitional design through the late 2010s. The brief was to take the archetype and refresh it through contemporary material choices.
The substantial open ring is wrapped in textured synthetic rope, drawing on years of designing outdoor furniture where woven rope carries both visual and structural weight — translated here from outdoor seating into ceiling fixture form. The synthetic specification is deliberate: it gives the rope wrap consistent tone and texture, holds up over time without the softening or color shift natural fiber would show, and keeps the piece serviceable in higher-traffic residential settings. A polished brass finish on the structural rods and candelabra arms rides the warm-metallics direction at the front of 2021 lighting, contrasting with the rope's matte texture and grounding the chandelier in a contemporary register rather than a strictly rustic one. The eight upward-facing candelabra lights ringing the wheel preserve the traditional farmhouse light arrangement while the cleaner proportions and material refinement keep the fixture from reading as period reproduction.
The Windsor Chandelier brings a wagon-wheel silhouette into contemporary balance — rope texture and brass finish carrying a traditional form into modern proportion.