15” diameter

In 1987, I built my first lighting fixture for over the dining table in the new home. I cut James Platineau Olive Oil bottles and fluted the edge. The metal is cut, carved, and brazed steel for the body of the lamp and the fluted and spiraling chain. I showed it to a designer in New York and they suggested making an electrified version. I was interested in Roman and Etruscan artifacts that I had seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that used metal to hold up glass or ceramic objects. The brazed metal has the look of something ancient. I went on to design and build scores of lighting fixtures all over the country.