New Modern Lamp in Marble, creator Bec Brittain

Self-taught designer Bec Brittain grew up surrounded by creative minds: Her mother is an artist, her father had a woodworking business, and her paternal grandparents and step-grandfather were architects.

In 2011, after serving as a design director for Lindsey Adelman, Brittain founded her own studio in Brooklyn and created the SHY light. The piece, whose name derives from the initials of her architect grandmother, Sarah Hitchcock Yerkes, was an immediate success, launching Brittain’s career.

The designer moved her studio to Manhattan in 2016 and opened an adjacent showroom in 2017.

Brittain makes all her products in New York with the help of local artisans and fabricators. A project called Aries, which was presented by 1stDibs in a 2018 exhibition during the Salone del Mobile in Milan, is an ode to Olafur Eliasson’s set design for the ballet Tree of Codes.

Find Bec Brittain chandeliers, wall lights, table lamps and other furnishings on 1stDibs.

The quality of the handicraft, the luxury of the materials, the value of a planning concept, are all modern influences: combining them through objects, home accessories and exclusive furnishings is Mmairo’s design. Established in 2016, with the dream of a unique piece, the company has made marble its material of choice; unique, precious, never equal to itself, dreamlike, with those endless veins. The company expresses passion for design, quality materials and beauty conjoined with decoration. It all begins in Carrara, international capital of marble, in the steady embrace of the Apuan Alps, where Mmairo has made its home to oversee the quarrying and processing of this pure gift of nature. The Apuan Alps’ heritage is beauty, and Mmairo has been able to harness the area’s deep roots to build relationships with local manufacturers, sharing dust and sunsets; because expertise on the subject is the first step towards artistic creation. For its collection, Mmairo has selected international and diverse brands, architects, designers and artists, whose private imaginings transform objects that range from the mundane, used for cooking and dining, into customised vases, centrepieces, cake stands. Fine materials, such as marble that nature supplies, never forfeit their uniqueness for a shared label. For this reason, Mmairo resolved to create its own identity: solid, tangible, recognisable through original and contemporary objects that that complement an eclectic element born in history,