Brass Globe Chandelier for a Shanghai Hotel Lobby

The brief asked for a single sculptural piece that could hold a 7-metre lobby volume without competing with the limestone architecture. We developed a brass branching chandelier with hand-blown opal globes, sized on site from a 1:10 mock-up and a lighting mesh in DIALux. Each globe is an independently dimmable LED module at 2700K, CRI 90+, wired to a DALI-2 scene set for daytime check-in, evening arrival, and late-night quiet hours. Matching floor lamps and table lamps carry the same globe language into the lounge alcoves so the room reads as one family of fixtures. The chandelier was assembled in Zhongshan, pre-wired, and shipped in two crates with a numbered hanging plan. On-site commissioning took two nights after the stone work was complete. The finished lobby now uses one fixture language from the porte-cochère through to the lift lobby.