Rogan Gregory Light

Although he began his career as a fashion designer, Rogan Gregory found his calling in the modern sculptural arts. Gregory creates abstract and figurative sculptures in fluid forms inspired by the natural world using materials including stone, metal and sand. His curving and sinuous sculptures achieve an asymmetrical harmony, while their amorphous nature is reminiscent of magnified cellular life forms. He has also experimented with more functional creations, making sculptural chandeliers and pendant lights as well as furniture like lounge chairs.

Initially working as a luxury fashion brand design consultant, Gregory launched his clothing collection in 2001. In 2005, he collaborated with Ali Hewson, the wife of U2’s Bono, to create EDUN, which is part fashion label and part social activism project. By 2007, he had received the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award, one of the most influential industry prizes.

While his fashion career was successful, Gregory switched paths in the mid-2010s to the world of interior design, creating a line of tables, lighting fixtures and decorative objects. Gregory’s furniture and decor are marked by a meditation on life and organic shapes. He finds inspiration in geology, ecology, biology, evolution and the reproductive process.

His first solo exhibition was at R & Company in 2016, followed by his second solo show in 2018 at R & Company’s new Manhattan gallery. In 2020, Gregory moved from New York to Los Angeles and set up a new studio in a former Santa Monica garbage truck depot. The spacious new studio allows him to work on more large-scale pieces.

Gregory’s work has been featured in major media outlets such as Architectural Digest, ELLE Decor, The Wall Street Journal, Surface and Wallpaper.

On 1stDibs, find Rogan Gregory’s lighting, seating, decorative objects and more.

The right table lamp, outwardly sculptural chandelier or understated wall pendant can work wonders for your home. While we’re indebted to thinkers like Thomas Edison for critically important advancements in lighting and electricity, we’re still finding new ways to customize illumination to fit our personal spaces all these years later. A wide range of antique and vintage lighting can be found on 1stDibs.

Today, lighting designers like the self-taught Bec Brittain have used the flexible structure of LEDs to craft glamorous solutions by working with what is typically considered a harsh lighting source. By integrating glass and mirrors, reflection can be used to soften the glow from LEDs and warmly welcome light into any space.

Although contemporary innovators continue to impress, some of the classics can’t be beat. 

Just as gazing at the stars allows you to glimpse the universe’s past, vintage chandeliers like those designed by Gino Sarfatti and J. & L. Lobmeyr, for example, put on a similarly stunning show, each with a rich story to tell.

As dazzling as it is, the Arco lamp, on the other hand, prioritizes functionality — it’s wholly mobile, no drilling required. Designed in 1962 by architect-product designers Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, the piece takes the traditional form of a streetlamp and creates an elegant, arching floor fixture for at-home use.

There is no shortage of modernist lighting similarly prized by collectors and casual enthusiasts alike — there are Art Deco table lamps created in a universally appreciated style, the Tripod floor lamp by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Greta Magnusson Grossman's sleek and minimalist Grasshopper lamps and, of course, the wealth of mid-century experimental lighting that emerged from Italian artisans at Arredoluce, FLOS and many more are hallmarks in illumination innovation. 

With decades of design evolution behind it, home lighting is no longer just practical. Crystalline shaping by designers like Gabriel Scott turns every lighting apparatus into a luxury accessory. A new installation doesn’t merely showcase a space; carefully chosen ceiling lights, table lamps and floor lamps can create a mood, spotlight a favorite piece or highlight your unique personality.

The sparkle that your space has been missing is waiting for you amid the growing collection of antique, vintage and contemporary lighting for sale on 1stDibs.