Black Pendant Light - Lunares Blog

There is a piece of furniture-that-isn’t-furniture that has refused to leave the covers of German and Scandinavian interior magazines for years: the black metal pendant light. A simple drop with a black shade hangs over tables in Berlin tenement flats, over islands in Copenhagen kitchens and over benches in Stockholm living rooms – and everywhere it looks as if it had always been there. That is no accident, and no passing fad. A black metal pendant is to an interior what the little black dress is to a wardrobe: a base that goes with everything, pulls the composition together and never grows old. In this post we take the phenomenon apart – and help you choose a black pendant light for your own home.

Black lamps work like a graphic frame: they define zones, repeat the lines of windows and furniture and add contrast without introducing another colour. Yet black can dominate a small room, while an opaque shade may direct almost all light downwards. A black pendant, ceiling light or wall lamp should therefore be selected for function, beam and scale as well as style.