Bespoke Fibre Optic Chandeliers

Galaxy Star Ceiling

The galaxy star ceiling.

This fantastic product is available now direct from Starscape. Order on line or by phone. For more information visit the Galaxy link under star ceilings main navigation bar or click here.

Starscape chandelier in a hotel in Cheshire

Four Starscape chandeliers are a feature of this hotel function room in Cheshire.

Starscape chandelier in a hotel in Cheshire

A close-up of one of the hotel chandeliers, showing the crystals at the ends of the optical fibres. The fibres are actually quite short, at the customer's request.

Here's another chandelier project for a hotel in London, commissioned by Starscape customer Electric City.

The chandelier design is quite simple: it runs above the reception desk. Click on the photo for a larger image.

This simple fibre optic chandelier hangs above a hotel reception desk

Bespoke Fibre Optic Chandeliers

In the Spring of 2009 Starscape were approached by RFK Architects of London who were interested in exploring the possibilities of combining fibre optics and acrylic to create a bespoke chandelier. We were glad to be involved, and over a period of a few months a design emerged, using optical fibres to carry light from a powerful metal halide light source in the ceiling void to illuminate dozens of acrylic rods suspended from stainless steel tubes.


Experiments showed that bubble rod was the best option since the reflections of light from the bubbles frozen in the clear acrylic enhanced the effect. The 72 rods form an irregular tiered array descending from the ceiling to a bit less than a metre from the floor, with the longest element being a bit over 3.5 metres. 3mm sheathed pmma optical fibre was used to carry the light from the metal halide light source.



The chandelier is displayed in the Beauty Department of Selfridges in the Trafford Centre, Manchester. In the detail photo (abpve) the acrylic rods can be seen in the
blue phase of the colour wheel.

Typically, in this sort of chandelier an LED might have been set at the top of each acrylic rod, but by using fibre optics instead there is just the one bulb required. The stainless steel components - ceiling boss and tubes - were manufactured for Starscape by Architectural Metalworkers of Washington, Tyne and Wear. Installation was by Starscape.



The bubbles in the acrylic rods shine most brightly in the white
phase of the colour wheel.