Allied Maker lighting designs are marked by the craft tradition — each elegant pendant, sconce and ceiling light is designed by Allied founder Ryden Rizzo. The parts are made by hand in the company's studio on the North Shore of Long Island, and Allied then partners with local makers to bring their offerings to market.
Allied Maker was established in 2012 as an independent study project while Rizzo was attending the Parsons School of Design. Working out of his parents’ garage on Long Island, Rizzo created cutlery, kitchen utensils and lighting fixtures. In a way, he was following in the footsteps of his father — a jewelry designer — and sought to build things with his hands.
Rizzo taught himself metalworking and woodworking, and began to create furnishings and post them to his project’s website. When a lighting fixture he’d crafted in brass became popular online, it quickly became apparent that Rizzo could open a design and manufacturing studio.
"The freedom to be able to iterate and come up with new ideas has always been at the heart of it, and that’s why Allied Maker has become so successful," Rizzo told Business of Home.
Allied’s inaugural design client was Dorothee Meilichzon of Chzon Agency, a successful French firm that specializes in hospitality properties, and the studio had its first showing at New York’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair in 2015. Rizzo's wife Lanette eventually came on board as the creative director.
In 2018, Allied introduced a new lighting collection characterized by sharply geometric designs. The line, which is emblematic of the studio’s focus on quality materials and superior craftsmanship, includes four versatile fixtures — the Grand Aperture 4, Tri Cone, Contour Wall Lamp 22 and Concentric 15. There are handmade glass globe diffusers, an integration of domestic hardwoods such as walnut and white oak, and bodies of bent metal. Allied launched the collection at what was then the Architectural Digest Design Show. Also in 2018, in collaboration with architect Marshall Shuster, the company opened its first showroom in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood.
Today Allied Maker’s clients include high-end New York City restaurants, and the studio’s quietly sophisticated fixtures can even be found in Gwyneth Paltrow's home in Montecito, California.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of Allied Maker lighting and decorative objects.
$1,800 / item
1 Arc Vanity
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
This hand-spun 8" dome is meticulously brushed and waxed to desired finish. The hand blown glass provides pleasant surface diffusion while also complimenting the light's overall form...
Brass
$1,200 / item
Flush Dome 10" Perforated
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
This hand-spun 10" dome is meticulously brushed and waxed to a matte satin finish. The hand blown glass provides pleasant surface diffusion while also complimenting the light's overa...
Brass
$8,350 / item
Aperture 4
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
The Aperture series was created to provide a beautiful quality of light by combining bounce and ambient glow. The light source is held in a hand-spun perforated brass dome on one sid...
Brass
$1,700 / item
Drum Downlight
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
Flush mounted wood cylinder with slits that emits a soft glow.
Brass
$900 / item
Flush Dome 08"
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
This hand-spun 8" dome is meticulously brushed and waxed to a matte satin finish. The hand blown glass provides pleasant surface diffusion while also complimenting the light's overal...
Brass
$2,100 / item
Aperture Sconce
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
The Aperture series was created to provide a beautiful quality of light by combining bounce and ambient glow. The light source is held in a hand-spun perforated brass dome on one sid...
Brass
$2,470 / item
Tri Cone
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
The tri cone pendant echoes it’s form in 3 geometric elements. A tetrahedron structure suspends a glass disc under a cone shade that houses a focused spot-lig...
Brass
$4,900 / item
Aperture Double
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
The Aperture series was created to provide a beautiful quality of light by combining bounce and ambient glow. The light source is held in a hand-spun perforated brass dome on one sid...
Brass
$800 / item
Mini Orb Pendant
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
A mouth-blown glass globe sits flush on a cast-brass disc. Hardware disappears, and the sphere becomes mysteriously endless.
Brass
$4,100 / item
Atelier Pendant 14"
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
A hand-spun brass parabolic shade perfectly slips over a cast-glass dome. A line of glass is revealed from the profile; inciting a look underneath into a seemingly endless void of gl...
Brass
$1,800 / item
Perforated Arc 14"
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
This hand-spun 14" perforated dome is meticulously brushed and waxed to desired finish. The hand blown glass provides pleasant surface diffusion while also complimenting the light's ...
Brass
$3,000 / item
Perforated Arc
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
This hand-spun 20" perforated dome is meticulously brushed and waxed to desired finish. The hand blown glass provides pleasant surface diffusion while also complimenting the light's ...
Brass
$28,600 / item
Grand Aperture 4
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
A scaled version of our Aperture 4 chandelier, this fixture was build for grand spaces. Four large glass domes encircle a 4-globe geometric light source to ...
Brass
$4,700 / item
Rein Pendant 20"
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
Leather straps pass through slots that are hand carved into this spun-metal dome. The straps provide structural suspension while also allowing electrical cables to pass through – ill...
Brass
$4,800 / item
Concentric 20" Pendant
By Allied Maker
Located in Glen Cove, NY
Concentric lines ripple underneath a turned wood dome; reinforcing the pendant's form and beauty of it's material.
Brass
Arc Rock Crystal Sconces by Phoenix
Located in New York, NY
Fine carved abstract design rock crystal quartz sconces with polish brass mount. Created by Phoenix gallery NYC. Custom size available.
$2,420
H 5.91 in Dm 14.97 in
Bonnie Contemporary LED Small Pendant, Solid Brass, Handmade sculptural light
By Ovature Studios
Located in Torslanda, SE
The Bonnie range is designed around the stylized form of a Saffron flower, known around the world for its valuable beauty, fragrance and essence. Each organic flower-like form is ...
Brass, Bronze, Nickel
$4,360 / item
H 7.88 in Dm 25.6 in
Bonnie Contemporary LED Pendant @ 65cm/26". Solid Brass, Handmade in Sweden
By Ovature Studios
Located in Torslanda, SE
The Bonnie range is designed around the stylized form of a Saffron flower, known around the world for its valuable beauty, fragrance and essence. Each organic flower-like form is st...
Brass, Bronze, Nickel
$2,670 / item
H 5.91 in W 14.97 in D 14.97 in
Bonnie Contemporary LED Small Pendant, Solid Brass or Nickel, Handmade/Finished
By Ovature Studios
Located in Torslanda, SE
The Bonnie range is designed around the stylized form of a Saffron flower, known around the world for its valuable beauty, fragrance and essence. Each organic flower-like form is ...
Nickel, Bronze, Brass
Pair of French Sconces by Arlus
Located in Miami, FL
Very elegant pair of gold color hand sconces by Arlus with white glass shades coming from an apartment in Paris fully furnished with furniture and items designed by the most known ...
Brass, Bronze
Late 19th Century Teak Ozi Goblet Shaped Drum with Black and Red Lacquer
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Burmese tribal Ozi goblet shaped teak drum from the late 19th century, with red and black lacquer and calf skin top. Created in Burma during the later years of the 19th century, this tribal drum...
Animal Skin, Wood
Hand-Crafted Neoclassic Wall Sconces, Metal, USA, 1980s
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Elegant pair of wall sconces made of metal, painted in silver and gold, with two 60/watt light each sconce Electrified and ready to use. Beautiful and clean cut pair for the wall. ...
Metal
$3,624 / item
H 13.78 in W 9.06 in D 7.17 in
Bosphore Wall Sconce in Green (Large Size) by Laura Gonzalez
By laura gonzalez
Located in Paris, FR
Glazed ceramic wall lamp with geometric relief made by the Jean Roger workshop in Paris. Available in green, yellow, blue, pink, brown, and matte white colors and in two sizes.
Ceramic
$4,950 / item
H 15.75 in Dm 35.44 in
Bonnie Large LED Handmade Sculptural Pendant in Solid Brass, 90cm/35".
By Ovature Studios
Located in Torslanda, SE
The Bonnie range is designed around the stylized form of a Saffron flower, known around the world for its valuable beauty, fragrance and essence. Each part is handmade, wether it be cast, milled, fabricated and finished from our Swedish workshop. With a combination of hand-brushed and polished surfaces, this solid brass fixture...
Brass
$2,061
H 5.5 in W 5 in D 2.5 in
Early 19th Century Gilt Bronze Whippet within Glass Cloche Dome Display Case
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Early 19th century Regency gilt bronze statue in the form of a whippet presented within period glass cloche dome bell jar display case supported on fitted ...
Bronze
$1,832
H 19.69 in W 11.42 in D 7.09 in
Hand-Crafted Antique Glass Dome Display with Jungle Nymphs, Indonesia
Located in Munich, DE
The Green Jungle Nymphs called Hétéropterix Dilaltata are form Papua New Guinea, Indonesian province. Set in an antique glass globe with wooden ba...
Glass, Organic Material, Wood
$4,007
H 13.98 in W 6.5 in D 4.73 in
Goldscheider Art Deco Dancer Posing On Drum by Josef Lorenzl, Around 1926
By Goldscheider Manufactory of Vienna, Josef Lorenzl
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare Goldscheider Art Deco ceramic figure of the 1920's: Representation of a young variety dancer in pose. She wears a short, low-cut, blue ruffled dress, the skirt ends of whi...
Ceramic