India influenced Tom Dixon’s series of brass Beat Pendant Lights in more ways than one. Indian cooking pots and water boats motivated their striking forms, while master craftsmen spin the hand and forms defeat the brass in Moradabad, Northern India. In a world where so many items are mass produced, the creation of those lights keeps these infrequent skills employed and living.
The pendants come in several shapes with quite straightforward titles, like Fat, Stout, Wide and Tall — sterile, eh? They are sometimes used as singles, pairs, trios and more; lined up in a row or bunched in a circle; wrapped in the same length or staggered. The formula for figuring out how many possibilities there are likely entails using factorials and can be well over the math skill set I left in calculus course quite a while ago. Regardless, I have gathered up a sampling of some of the possibilities that you compare and contrast, no calculus required.
Gaile Guevara
Let’s start simply — this really is really a Fat, Wide, Fat pattern wrapped in a lineup in the same height. The contours work well with minimalist aesthetics and keep things interesting.
Todd Davis Architecture
Moving along, this arrangement has five pendants organized like a linear mobile in a symmetrical layout (Broad, Tall, Fat, Tall, broad).
If you want the eyes to dance a bit more, you can change the heights of these pendants as you see in this picture. When you use more than a couple of pendants, the group becomes a headboard chandelier.
Willey Design LLC
There is not any rule stating the pendants need to be arranged in a direct line; here a cluster hovers over the center of a little dining table.
Ashleigh Weatherill Interior Design
The outside of this pendants sports a matte black finish, while the brass interior bounces the light around and produces a stunning glow.
MB Jessee
This arrangement is composed around the largest pendant, Stout.
Jim Tetro
Everything in this room is quite rectilinear, with the exclusion of the Beat Pendants along with the sculptural round table. The two are having a nice conversation amid all of the right lines and light colors.
Slightly Quirky Ltd
Now that you’ve seen a bunch of mixed classes, what do you consider a simple pair of pendants?
SK Designers – Shimrit Kaufman
A lined-up trio keeps the minimalist look yet adds interesting shapes into the mixture.
Adriana
Hint: When planning lighting for a long kitchen island, think about using two large pendant lights instead of three or four little ones.
AIA, dSPACE Studio Ltd
Just because the Beats were motivated by water and pots vessels doesn’t mean they are restricted to the kitchen and the dining room. Beat lights produce some seriously swanky billiard lighting. If it looks familiar, it is because Chuck Bass has a bunch of Beat Pendants on his pool table in his flat on Gossip Girl.
Rockefeller Partners Architects
Hanging your lighting is almost always a good way to conserve room on a nightstand.
Sven Lavine Architecture
Fiorella Design
A Fat pendant throws great light on a desk in this tree house–like research.
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