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"Niche Modern's original line of muted, curvilinear blown-glass fixtures quickly put the company on the design-world map. Its newest work, the Crystalline Series, is a set of pendant lights embracing more angular forms and bolder colors. \"I've always been inspired by the underlying mathematics of nature,\" says Jeremy Pyles, Niche Modern's cofounder, of the source of the shapes. Angles are difficult to achieve with molten glass\u2014molds are required to coerce it. (For prototyping, they're made of wood; for production, cast iron.) The line's four pieces include Delinea, the most complicated, a series of cylindrical projections, and Trove, a sort of spun hexagonal shape recalling a gemstone.\n\nPinterestFacebookFrom left: A Calla pendant in rose and a Trove pendant in amber.\n\nNine colors are available, among them clementine, tulip, rose, and Condesa\u2014the last inspired by the signature turquoise color of the Mexico City hotel where Pyles often stays. \"I'm starting to open my heart to color,\" he says. And to the mixing and matching of his fixtures. \"I'm very rigid\u2014five pendants, same color, hung at the same height. But when I see combinations I would have never thought of myself done by architects, interior designers, or consumers . . . I'm happy.\"\n\nPinterestFacebookFrom left: A Calla pendant in gray and a Delinea pendant in tulip.\n\nAvailable now from $550; nichemodern.com\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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