Ordinary shades block light or bounce it. Alabaster lets it through, so the glow travels into real stone and comes back softened, carrying the veining with it. The piece reads as sculpture by day and as a lantern after dark.

What defines the collection

Alabaster paired with two metals: solid brass, finished in brushed gold, and stainless steel. The stone does the work: its translucence diffuses the light rather than reflecting it, and its natural veining means every shade differs slightly, which is the argument for real stone over a faux finish. The forms cover a whole home, with Celia and Selene as flat ceiling lights, Seraphine and Alba as chandeliers, Zira as a hanging pendant, four sconces for the wall, and the Ora Table Lamp for a console or bedside.

Sizing and hanging heights

The ceiling lights are the flattest option, 16 to 24 inches across and only 2 inches deep, which suits a standard 8-foot ceiling the way a flush mount does. The chandeliers run 23 to 39 inches across. Hang a pendant 30 to 36 inches above a table, and mount the sconces, which stand 15 to 23 inches tall, at 60 to 65 inches from the floor. Every piece runs warm white at 3000K with CRI 90, and every piece is dimmable with a standard wall dimmer.

Rooms and styles it suits

Dining rooms first, where diffused light lands kindly on faces across a table, then the bedroom and the entry, where a fixture earns its keep switched off as well as on. Stone sits as easily in traditional and transitional rooms as in contemporary ones. For more of the wall pieces, the alabaster wall sconces have their own page, the Alba collection gathers the family in one place, and the modern table lamps range carries the same warm-light thinking beyond stone.

Start with the piece the room actually needs, then let the same stone travel from the dining room to the hall. MOD LIGHTING keeps one material and two metals across the whole collection.