Orbitale Brass Chandelier By Silvio Piattelli

This stunning bespoke brass chandelier is cleverly designed to work perfectly with lower ceilings. It features five rotating arms with a minimum height of 28 in. (70 cm). The arms are skillfully balanced on a heavy cast brass sphere and rotate in an orbital movement along the stem. To achieve perfect balance, each sphere is filled with sand, creating a point of no leverage. The shades are connected to the arms with pivot joints so that the light can be oriented in different ways. Although it provides mostly ambient light reflected towards the ceiling with the shades acting as reflectors, each shade has a hole in it which shines some direct light downwards, highlighting the tips of reflecting objects such as silverware and crystalware and giving them depth. In order to create a uniform, warm light output, the brass shades, even the lacquered ones, are left in natural brass. This provides a warm ambient light. The arms and the body are made in natural solid brass and hand finished. The standard shade colors are ivory, black and natural brass. Natural patina brass comes as standard. Labeled by Maker, Up to 250V (Europe/UK Standard).