The inspiration for the Branching collection, first created in 2006, was the brass swivel joints and elbows found in the industrial stores on lower Manhattan’s Canal Street. What would happen if you took those shapes and re-engineered them, creating something radical and unexpected? And what if you combined them with graceful, hand-blown glass globes, like those made by Michiko Sakano, a Brooklyn-based artist with an amazing eye who is steeped in traditional technique? The Branching collection is the union of those two seemingly disparate aesthetics -- the industrial and the organic—like a marriage of opposites gone crazy with joy. The fixture can stay simple, or it can be designed to wander or sprawl to fit the space. Available in a range of metals and finishes, it can punctuate a vast ceiling with its warm glow or trickle down a wall—the possibilities are endless. The collection is now also available with porcelain discs made by Nymphenburg Porcelain, a 400+ year-old family-owned company based in Germany. Certain pieces also use hammered bronze shades which are forged by hand in East Hampton, New York.