INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE - FALL MARKET TABLOID 2025

After honing her design chops by working for such notables as David Rockwell and Frank Gehry, Andrea Claire opened her eponymous lighting studio in 2011. The bicoastal creative’s latest collection, Totemic, draws from the symbolic language of Indigenous American totems and jewelry. Custom brass stems finished in 22-karat gold leaf, moon gold leaf, or sterling silver leaf are strung with one or more shapely paper luminaires to form a table or standing lamp or a lighting pendant.

“I’ve long believed chandeliers are jewelry for a space,” explains the artist, who renders sketches into 3D models and laser-cuts the structural components, which are then assembled and hand-sanded at her Los Angeles studio. Diamond-shaped beads stipple the stems, catching and refracting light like a baroque necklace. The shades themselves, crafted of Korean mulberry paper, are available in two sizes and three shapes: Moon, Sage, and August.