Header: John Gray
Bloom is an award-winning chandelier designed by Adas Art, a multidisciplinary practice led by designer Acácio da Silva. Completed in June of 2025 in Winston Salem, North Carolina, it won the “Chandeliers” category at the LIT Lighting Design Awards. The piece is built from a branching copper body, with porcelain shades shaped as flowers.
Blooming in copper and porcelain
The chandelier is built around copper and porcelain, with the former making the branching frame and the latter being used for the flower-shaped shades that hold the light. Rather than following the typical chandelier arrangement of a centrepiece and matching arms and shades, Bloom has a looser form, with curved tubes and ceramic flowers set at different heights and angles. It is from these flowers and stems that Bloom takes its name.
Looking attentively at Bloom
The copper body is made from tubing, precision-welded to hold the form in place. The welded joints allow the tubes to turn in different directions while safely holding the weight of the porcelain shades and light fittings. The frame has no single front, as the tubes gather tightly in some areas and open out around the ceramic pieces in others.
The copper surface has an oxidation finish that gives it a blue-green patina, with turquoise and green-blue areas contrasted by copper-brown tones. The finish is uneven on purpose, moving between more weathered sections and warmer areas where the copper shows through.
Each porcelain shade holds a light source, with five glazes used across the flowers. The palette includes turquoise outer areas, pale grey-beige textured bands, pink and mauve tones inside the shades, and darker speckled marks across parts of the surface. The layered glazes give the ceramic depth, with small shifts in texture from one area to another. At the base of the shades, leaves and textured mesh mark the point where ceramic meets metal.
Sustainable and warm
The chandelier uses 4W dimmable LED bulbs with an E12 base, running at 120V. Each bulb gives 350 lumens and has a warm 2200K colour temperature, close to candlelight. The bulbs produce light similar to that of 40W incandescent lamps while using much less energy. This makes the lighting system the main sustainability feature of the piece: while it keeps the warm tone of traditional bulbs, it uses smaller and more efficient LEDs.
Project information
Lighting Design Company: Adas Art
Lead Designer: Acácio da Silva
Date: 06/25
Location: Winston Salem, USA
