Drop In for a Spooky Chandelier

Drop In for a Spooky Chandelier

Lindsay Adelman modeled Drop on the geometric rigor of Piet Mondrian, but the lighting system also harbors an element of spooky surprise.

Drop chandelier bronze detail

Maybe this is personal bias—as one of our quick go-to Halloween decorations is styrofoam balls painted like eyeballs and jabbed into the ground on wooden stakes—but there’s something about Drop that evokes what one Shakespeare character called “the vile jelly.”

Chandelier with many mini-globes on vertical rods in old room
While eyes are okay, eyeballs are inherently creepy—the evocation of them as free-floating entities sends shivers up the spine, for both their bloodshot circumference and the suggestion of disembodiment.
Drop with horizontal rods and background of wall painted in blue abstract floral

Imagine Adelman’s mini glass globes as spherical vessels of sight and you’ll begin to see the Halloween connection. But not to push the association too far… Drop also achieves Adelman’s aim of “finding the wild spirit within a seemingly rigid form.” Indeed, in the image above, the globes seem dynamic and animated, finding purchase on the thin tubes like songbirds fleetingly perched on branches. The below reminds me of the ebb and flow of stalactites and stalagmites, which offer their own brand of creepy ooze.

Drop Chandelier bronze, flush-mount
Drop comes in many forms, including a sconce and flush-mount chandelier. Finish options for the Drop System include mottled brass, tarnished nickel, oil-rubbed bronze, and “Luna,” which has a silvery sheen “inspired by the illuminated surface of the moon.”
Detail of finish option samples

Discover Drop on Lindsay Adelman. And go here for more All-Hallows-Eve-themed posts from 3rings.

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