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She is celebrating her studio\u2019s 20th anniversary in her most creative way yet.Lindsey Adelman in her studio on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.Credit...Paola Chapdelaine for The New York TimesSkip to contentSkip to site indexSearch & Section NavigationSection NavigationAccountAccountGoHome U.S.SECTIONSU.S.PoliticsNew YorkCaliforniaEducationHealthObituariesScienceClimateWeatherSportsBusinessTechThe UpshotThe MagazineTOP STORIESDonald TrumpSupreme CourtCongressImmigrationAbortionLatest PollsNEWSLETTERSThe MorningMake sense of the day\u2019s news and ideas.The EveningCatch up on big news, and wind down to end your day.See all newslettersPODCASTSThe DailyThe biggest stories of our time, in 20 minutes a day.See all podcastsWorldSECTIONSWorldAfricaAmericasAsiaAustraliaCanadaEuropeMiddle EastScienceClimateWeatherHealthObituariesTOP STORIESMiddle East CrisisRussia-Ukraine WarChina International RelationsThe Global ProfileLeer en Espa\u00f1olNEWSLETTERSThe WorldA guide to understanding the news, made for readers around the globe.Your Places: Global UpdateThe latest news for any part of the world you select.Canada LetterBackstories and analysis from our Canadian correspondents.See all newslettersBusinessSECTIONSBusinessTechEconomyMediaFinance and MarketsDealBookPersonal TechEnergy TransitionYour MoneyTOP STORIESU.S. EconomyStock MarketArtificial IntelligenceNEWSLETTERSDealBookThe most crucial business and policy news you need to know.On TechOur best tech reporting from the week.See all newslettersPODCASTSHard ForkOur tech journalists help you make sense of the rapidly changing tech world.See all podcastsArtsSECTIONSToday's ArtsBook ReviewBest SellersDanceMoviesMusicTelevisionTheaterPop CultureT MagazineVisual ArtsRECOMMENDATIONS100 Best Movies of the 21st CenturyCritic\u2019s PicksWhat to ReadWhat to WatchWhat to Listen To5 Minutes to Make You Love MusicNEWSLETTERSBooksReviews, news and features to help you find your next read.WatchingStreaming TV and movie recommendations.See all newslettersPODCASTSBook ReviewThe podcast that takes you inside the literary world.PopcastPop music news, new songs and albums, and artists of note.See all podcastsLifestyleSECTIONSAll LifestyleWellTravelStyleReal EstateFoodLoveYour MoneyPersonal TechT MagazineCOLUMNS36 HoursAsk WellThe HuntModern LoveWhere to EatVowsSocial Q\u2019sThe EthicistAsk the TherapistNEWSLETTERSThe WeekenderUnwind with stories about culture and the way we live.WellEssential news and guidance to live your healthiest life.See all newslettersPODCASTSModern LoveThe complicated love lives of real people.See all podcastsOpinionSECTIONSOpinionGuest EssaysEditorialsOp-DocsVideosLettersTOPICSPoliticsWorldBusinessTechClimateHealthCultureCOLUMNISTSJamelle BouieMaureen DowdDavid FrenchThomas L. 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Win ProjectionsNEWSLETTERSThe PulseDelivering the top stories in sports, Sunday to Friday.See all newslettersPLAYConnections: Sports Edition Connections: Soccer Edition Connections Coach U.S.InternationalCanadaEspa\u00f1ol\u4e2d\u6587This Artist Knows How to Light Up a RoomLindsey Adelman makes innovative, custom chandeliers for design mavens. She is celebrating her studio\u2019s 20th anniversary in her most creative way yet.Lindsey Adelman in her studio on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.Credit...Paola Chapdelaine for The New York TimesSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTListen \u00b7 10:05 min Share full articleBy Ingrid AbramovitchSept. 20, 2026Twenty-one years ago, Lindsey Adelman was wandering along Canal Street in Lower Manhattan, then a bustling destination for surplus electronics and hardware, when she spotted a crate filled with lamp fittings including tubing, swivels and electrical parts. She had spent the previous decade finding her footing as an industrial designer while producing offbeat artworks incorporating human hair \u2014 often her own.\u201cI\u2019m always looking for constraints that I can play around with,\u201d said Adelman, who challenged herself to create a light fixture out of the brass fittings she scavenged from those crates. \u201cI could see how to hack the system to make a lamp that was not expected \u2014 forms that were spidery, organic, out of control.\u201dGrowing up, she had accompanied her mother, Pamela Russell, a Westchester aerobics instructor turned interior designer, on trips to high-end d\u00e9cor showrooms in Manhattan. Remembering those excursions, she decided that her own lighting creation needed \u201can element of sensuality and luxury.\u201d At UrbanGlass in Downtown Brooklyn, she collaborated with the glassblower Michiko Sakano on a series of soap bubble-like globes \u2014 inspired by the loops she had been obsessively drawing at the time \u2014 which she attached to the lamp parts she found on Canal Street.VideoAdelman preparing the clay molds that will be cast into brass hooks for her chandeliers.CreditCredit...By Paola Chapdelaine for The New York TimesThe resulting chandelier, Branching Bubble, launched Adelman\u2019s eponymous studio and introduced a new kind of lighting to American interiors: part industrial salvage, part biomorphic sculpture, with a decidedly downtown attitude. Designers such as Kelly Wearstler, Amy Lau and Kelly Behun, along with the architect Peter Marino, were early adopters. Before long, Adelman\u2019s lighting was illuminating the homes of the artist Kara Walker and actors Julianne Moore, Glenn Close and Cate Blanchett.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cHer products, the chandeliers in particular, make a huge statement in a room,\u201d said Nicole Hollis, the San Francisco-based interior designer. \u201cIt\u2019s like a beautiful drawing floating in the air.\u201dOn a recent afternoon, Adelman, 58, sat in her 5,000-square-foot showroom in NoHo, reflecting on her studio as it begins its third decade. She has built a sizable, independently owned company without ever having had a business plan. Over the years, her collection has grown to include more than 100 lighting models \u2014 from the jewel-like Cherry Bomb series she launched in 2014, inspired by Japanese cherry blossoms, to her most recent collection, Andromeda, whose rocklike orbs and angular planes evoke an asteroid collision.\u201cShe\u2019s always been a tastemaker, a trendsetter, a style maker,\u201d said David Alhadeff, who represents Adelman through the Future Perfect, his design gallery, with locations in New York, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco. \u201cAnd the world has really followed her direction,\u201d he added.\u201cShe\u2019s always been a tastemaker, a trendsetter, a style maker,\u201d said David Alhadeff about Adelman, who represents her through his gallery, the Future Perfect.Credit...Paola Chapdelaine for The New York TimesAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTChanging the RulesAdelman manages her team as creatively as she conducts her life. Take Leo Madriz, a production builder and quality control supervisor at the studio. Soon after he started working with her 15 years ago, he inquired about taking classes and asked her, \u201cCould I take a few days unpaid to go and do it?\u201dMadriz\u2019s request inspired Adelman to offer every employee a paid week off every two years to attend any kind of creative workshop. She even provided a stipend of up to $2,000 for tuition and transportation. The only requirement was that participants give a show-and-tell at the studio upon their return. Since then, Madriz and his colleagues have taken classes around the world on everything from neon-light-crafting in Iceland to backstrap-loom-weaving in Thailand.For someone as unconventional as Adelman, she has always been clear about what she wants. In the 1990s, a few years after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, she discovered the work of fellow RISD alum David Weeks, who was producing architectural, mobile-like pendants in his Brooklyn shop.ImageAdelman has always insisted on retaining full ownership of her business, and has vowed never to sell her brand, since it bears her own name.Credit...Paola Chapdelaine for The New York Times\u201cHe was totally ignoring all the rules of lighting,\u201d she said. \u201cI immediately wanted to work for him.\u201d But Weeks did not have the budget to hire her at the time.A few months later, Adelman overheard \u201cI Feel For You\u201d by Chaka Khan coming from a loft in SoHo and convinced a friend to join her in crashing what she thought was a raucous party.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\u201cWe ran up and started dancing and when I looked up, I was dancing with David Weeks,\u201d she recalled.\u201cI have a little money now!\u201d Weeks shouted to Adelman over the music on the dance floor, adding, \u201cHow do you know the bride and groom?\u201dCharmed by her moxie and impressed with her talent, he hired her. \u201cShe\u2019s always had confidence and charisma,\u201d said Weeks, who taught Adelman the basics of running a small lighting design company.In 2000, the two started a new venture: Butter, a design collaborative, creating such items as their best-selling $25 Lunette clip-on lampshade and a vending machine that dispensed limited-edition designs.Branching BubbleIn 2004, as Butter was winding down and Adelman went looking for her next act, she conceptualized and designed her Branching Bubble chandelier. A developer in Brooklyn ordered three and installed them in a model townhouse. When the neighboring rowhouses were sold, several of the buyers ordered her lighting. She invested the money she made by renting a booth in New York in 2006 at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, plating the fixtures in 24-karat gold and rolling the glass in gold leaf.\u201cIn my imagination, I was designing for Donatella Versace,\u201d Adelman said. \u201cIt started taking off and I was making a profit. But it really was one fixture at a time.\u201dImageBranching Bubble launched Adelman\u2019s eponymous studio and introduced a new kind of lighting to American interiors: part industrial salvage, part biomorphic sculpture.Credit...Lauren ColemanAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTShe devised the collection as an integrated system that, like a luxe Erector Set, could be expanded and customized to suit any environment. But she could barely keep up with demand for her fixtures, some of which sold for tens of thousands of dollars. Because she didn\u2019t apply for a patent, she inadvertently launched a global industry of Branching Bubble knockoffs at bargain prices.\u201cIt bothered a lot of people in my company,\u201d Adelman said, \u201cbut I saw it as more of a social phenomenon than a threat.\u201d She feels differently now, wondering whether she was \u201cin denial\u201d about it. Today, she has intellectual property lawyers to protect her ideas.Business Her WayDuring the pandemic, Gwyneth Paltrow reached out to Adelman, who told her about her concept of creating a chandelier with Murano-style globes suspended from brass chains, like a cascading necklace stack. The actress immediately ordered the first Paradise chandelier, for her living room in Montecito, Calif.ImageGwyneth Paltrow ordered Adelman\u2019s first Paradise chandelier for the living room in her home in Montecito, Calif.Credit...Nigel CoxThe actress Marisa Tomei, who regards Adelman as a \u201cvisionary,\u201d sought out the artist, hoping to solve a complex design issue. \u201cI had a very specific spot I needed to mask but also let a lot of light in,\u201d she told me. \u201cShe jumped in with a gorgeous bubble chandelier.\u201d Adelman has always insisted on retaining full ownership of her business, and has vowed never to sell her brand, since it bears her own name. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThat level of control lets her run things her way \u2014 and have fun doing so. In 2015, her team helped her make a music video, \u201cShow Me.\u201d They spent six months rehearsing the choreography during work hours; participation was voluntary and Adelman designed the sets, costumes and jewelry. For another video, she created a slow-motion sequence of a pair of $45,000 chandeliers from her Burst collection colliding and exploding. \u201cOur studio is creatively driven at the core,\u201d Adelman said.VideoAdelman works on watercolor paintings for her collection of colorful lamps.CreditCredit...By Paola Chapdelaine for The New York TimesAt the same time, being a successful entrepreneur demands that she make some tough calls. Two years ago, Adelman decided to outsource manufacturing of her main lighting collection from her production line in New York City to a company in North Carolina, which she declined to name.\u201cWe were managing parts from hundreds of suppliers, and they could do everything \u2014 the machining, the plating \u2014 all under one roof,\u201d she said.Unfortunately, this meant reducing her team from 35 to 20 employees and retraining the remaining operations staff to work on design development, while turning her Lower East Side workshop into a laboratory for experimentation and custom projects. Adelman has turned her Lower East Side workshop into a laboratory for experimentation and custom projects.Credit...Paola Chapdelaine for The New York TimesAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTCelebrating a MilestoneWhile her studio\u2019s 20th anniversary sparked thoughts of a celebration, Adelman decided to hold a small online auction of archival pieces at Wright in December. She plans to devote a portion of the proceeds to City Harvest, a New York City-based food rescue organization (Adelman also donates 1 percent of her annual profits to charities including the Robin Hood Foundation, which fights poverty). From Sept. 16 to Nov. 1, two new Adelman chandeliers will appear in a group show called \u201cUse Me, I\u2019m Fragile,\u201d which is focused on glass design, at the Future Perfect gallery in the West Village of Manhattan.ImageThroughout her 20-year career, Adelman said, she was \u201calways looking for constraints that I can play around with.\u201d Credit...Paola Chapdelaine for The New York TimesLately, Adelman has redirected some of her energy toward spiritual pursuits: She is studying somatic therapy, while training to become a breath work facilitator.\u201cWhen you\u2019ve been going hard for a long time, it can drain creative joy,\u201d Adelman said. \u201cThe way I wanted to celebrate 20 years was to chill out for a minute and work less, frankly. That, to me, feels super creative.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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