The Wiltshire-based contemporary artist and luminaire designer Bruce Munro has been commissioned to create a pendant light for a tall and narrow stairwell in London. The result is a piece of illuminated sculpture, which Munro says is “like a cross between a cooling tower and a Van de Graaff Generator”, and it is named The Saturn Necklace. Munro was inspired, as so often, by the actual site: a mirrored narrow space. “It made me think of lightning bolts, glass spheres, and film sets of the 1920s”. He designed a 6.5 meter tall fibre-optic pendant made of 30 hand blown glass spheres threaded with 30 optic fibres, which has recently been installed in a London property.
Each glass sphere, suspended down the stairwell void, measures 20 cm in diameter, and is supported by a single clear laser-cut ‘saucer’, hung on three steel suspension wires attached through the outer edges. A small steel collar wedged between the two gives strength to the central column.
