We collaborated with Schiller Projects to create the first installation of ELT (Electrified Laminated Timber) – a patent-pending lighting system that seamlessly integrates electrical components into mass timber structures. The design carves light-reflective coves into the gaps between the timber elements. Features for the lighting system were milled into the wooden panels at the factory before they were shipped to site, allowing for a system of custom-designed lighting elements to flush-fit into place without the need for fasteners. This system has the potential to reduce the embodied carbon of mass-timber buildings by eliminating unnecessary parts and metal enclosures.

Project: Brooklyn Timber House
Photography by Frank Frances
Brooklyn, New York
2023

STICKBULB creates an electric forest in the heart of SoHo. The sprawling, branch-like BOUGH installation hangs in the center of the room. Bough is an organic modular system that grows from a slim hanging pendant into large-scale geometries. This BOUGH showcases what co-founder Christopher Beardsley calls “the playfulness of our system.” As Beardsley says, “the ambition with Stickbulb is for architects and designers to approach our wood-and-light bulbs as a child would an Erector Set.”

The installation was open to the public in January 2020, located on the ground floor of the historic 165 Mercer St which was built in the early 1900s to house factories.

Photography by Joseph De Leo
Manhattan, NY
2020

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Bridge House, Dan Brunn, partnered with New York based lighting brand Stickbulb to create a custom RAY Sconce installation that complements the home’s modern interior, while supporting the dedication to mindful living.

“Ray is simple, clean, and quiet,” notes Russell Greenberg, Stickbulb Co-Founder. “The design is so minimal that it draws your attention closer to the subtle details of the wood grain, even when painted in a custom color.

Photography by Brandon Shigeta
Los Angeles, California
2020

Brooklyn-based firm CO Adaptive Architecture is on a mission to deconstruct, salvage and reuse NYC building materials.

For their renovation of the Queens Passive House – originally built in 1945 – they came to Stickbulb with the unique opportunity to create a series of linear pendants from the building’s original wood joists.

Photography by Nicholas Calcott
Brooklyn, New York
2022

A 19th century barn in the Hudson Valley was not only turned into a beautiful residential interior but also designed to meet passive house standards. The team at Barlis Wedlick looked to Stickbulb to help create a minimal yet impactful fixture to hang over the kitchen island.

Photography by Brian W. Ferry
Hudson Valley, NY

The 9ft X DIAMOND 360 chandelier by Stickbulb is a celebration of hexagonal and octahedral forms in nature, consisting of 60 three foot long maple wood bulbs joined together by cast brass joints. The design allows for numerous perspectives, encouraging the spectator to circle the construction to discover the multiple layers within its structure. All of the bulbs have been inserted along the length of the panels of wood, causing geometrical shapes to bounce in all directions.

SCOPE Art Show Miami
Rossana Orlandi Milan
International Contemporary Furniture Fair NYC
2015

Ambassador: A Sculptural Portal of Otherworldly Light Made from Three-Centuries-Old Redwood.

Ambassador is a nod to John Steinbeck’s 1960s travelogue ‘Travels with Charley.’ Both a large-scale sculpture and optical illusion, it re-adapts 300-year-old redwood reclaimed from New York City water towers into a giant half-moon of ethereal light. The form and scale are intended to reflect the majesty and mystery of the world’s largest and most ancient trees.

An 8-foot tall, self-supporting arc of light will radiate from over 120 richly textured redwood beams salvaged from a demolished water tower at 200 Vesey Street in Manhattan – carbon dated to be three centuries old.

The size and circular shape of the sculpture is meant to evoke the grand scale of the redwood tree itself (the trunks of which sometimes grow to 30 feet in diameter) and echo the iconic circular drums of water towers from which the wood came.

Photography by Joseph De Leo
New York City
2017

Working with lighting designer SBLD Studio we created two customized versions of its Truss chandelier: one elongated version involving six modules of Stickbulb’s X design inspired by hexagonal forms found in nature, and another using two modules. Designed by Gensler, One World Commons is an amenity space strategically situated on the 64th story of 1 World Trade Center, where it unites the upper and lower sections of the 104-floor tower in a communal setting.

Photography by Garrett Rowland
New York City
2018

When award winning architect Rene Gonzalez, entrepreneur Karla Dascal and celebrated chef Matthew Kenney teamed up to create a fine dining restaurant that also happens to be completely vegan, they wanted the decor to match the creativity of the cuisine. Stickbulb was charged with filling an open-air space in the heart of the city’s Wynwood neighborhood, and worked with Gonzalez to create a room-filling series of one-of-a-kind fixtures. 

“Dining out is an experiential, sensorial experience and lighting is critical to creating the right ambiance for both patrons and the presentation of food. From the outset, we wanted to find a chandelier that had an organic, branch-like quality. With Stickbulb as a partner, we developed custom chandeliers that hover over the tables like branches of a tree. In a nod to Miami and to enliven the space, we customized the lights by painting them mamey, a deep orange color, based on the Cuban mamey fruit. We worked with Stickbulb closely to achieve the finished design and the company’s production methods and materials tie in to Plant Food + Wine’s philosophy of sustainable, plant-based cuisine, making them a perfect fit for this project.” – Rene Gonzalez

Photography by Michael Stavaridis
Miami, Florida
2016

We were delighting to receive an invitation to present a custom Linear Pendant design in the Fantini booth at Fiera Milano during Salone Del Mobile 2016.

Booth Designed by Piero Lissoni

Photography by Joseph De Leo
New York City
April, 2016

A suspended light sculpture inspired by and made from the striking ruins of a storied Chicago factory.

Made possible through the use of BOUGH hardware connectors, the sleek wooden LED beams seemingly splinter in the air, floating above fragments of the former Pullman Couch Factory alongside a large-scale limited edition art print of the building in its last moments. When the 100-year-old Pullman Couch Company building caught fire on January 22, 2013, one third of the Chicago fire department turned out to battle the flames in sub-zero temperatures. As the firefighters doused the structure in water, it froze into a palace of ice around the building’s smoldering core. The clash of elemental opposites created an event of great visual and poetic power, earning what was left of the building the name “Fire and Ice.”

“A material does not exist in a vacuum. Provenance matters,” says RUX Founder and Stickbulb Co-Founder Russell Greenberg. “We want to make things of meaning from parts that themselves have meaning. Out of this genuine respect for material origin will come a softer, more sustainable, more meaningful built environment.”

Photography by Joseph De Leo
New York City

We created a custom 16ft Pendant to accomade the unique needs of the kitchen for the Past Present House. The architects at Chadbourne + Doss Architects specified our walnut and matte black finish to match the millwork and hardware of the kitchen design.

Photography by Kevin Scott
Seattle, WA

A custom branching bough for a 125 year-old institution.
Van Alen’s mission is to help create equitable cities through community-led inclusive design. In an equitable city, communities are engaged in the conception and creation of their built environment, regardless of income or personal circumstances. Community-driven decision-making builds resilience, social infrastructure, and ultimately, more just cities.

Photography by Anne MacLeod
Brooklyn, New York
2020

Custom Boom in ebonized oak and hand-blackened steel, designed for the Manhattan residence of architect Francois de Menil.

Photography by Paul Warchol
Manhattan, New York