Spreading Light: Celebrating the Holidays

The holidays are upon us, and it is a time for entertaining and rejoicing. At Ann Lowengart Interiors, we help our clients celebrate the season with well-appointed dining rooms, including beautifully crafted lighting. Annie believes in sourcing from and supporting the artisans who help make each of her projects distinctly unique. One of these is New York City-based Lindsey Adelman, who combines organic hand-blown glass with industrial metal elements. For the dining room of a classic San Francisco William Wurster house, Annie selected "The Agnes Chandelier." Its modular configuration of light and bronze crowns the grayscale portrait of champion thoroughbred Zenyatta.

For a more traditional home on the Peninsula, Ann Lowengart Interiors installed Lindsey Adelman's “Terrarium Pendants” over the dining table. The pendant resembles a white flower pod captured in a transparent globe. The organic shape plays with the angular lines of a Charles II oak-paneled chest, late-nineteenth-century velvet framed mirror, and side chairs with hand-woven English Bridle leather seats. Annie completed the dining area with a rustic 19th-century elm and fruitwood farm table perfect for sharing holiday meals.

John Pomp Studios in Philadelphia provided the hand-blown sculpted glass crystal pendants with a clear band lens for a Eureka Valley Edwardian. Master Glass Blower John Pomp loves the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi that values what is ephemeral and imperfect. In contrast to the fleeting beauty of the chandelier, a sturdy wood table anchors the room. Annie selected hand-painted Chinoiserie silk panels of prunus trees as a reference to the fruit-shaped glass spheres. A custom curved bench hugs, on one side of the oval table. To maximize Thanksgiving and Christmas seating, it was companioned with mid-century style dining chairs.

Tricia KerrNovember 18, 2019