Hollen Acorn Lacquered Antique Brass Prismatic Glass Pendant

The Hollen Acorn is a pendant built around a single, hand-finished glass globe, cased in lacquered antique brass and shaped with the rounded acorn profile borrowed from Victorian and Georgian lantern design. It suits a hallway, stairwell, or kitchen island where one fitting is asked to do the work of setting the room's tone. With a chain drop of up to 327.2cm, it can be hung to run the full height of a double-height stairwell, meeting the space rather than sitting lost within it. The glass is prismatic rather than plain, so instead of a single beam it throws a scatter of soft refractions across walls and ceiling, changing character with the angle of view and the time of day. The acorn silhouette gives the brass a rounded, almost architectural presence, and the lacquered finish keeps its warmth without dulling into anything heavy-handed. It is a fitting that rewards being looked at twice. It takes a single E27 bulb (not included) — we'd suggest a warm-toned LED, which the fitting will happily run dimmed for evenings or at full brightness for daily use. The pendant is Class I and rated IP20, so it belongs in dry indoor spaces rather than bathrooms or anywhere exposed to damp. Given the weight of the glass shade at 1.76kg, we'd recommend installation by a qualified electrician. Made by Soho Lighting and finished only in lacquered antique brass — a decision that keeps the acorn form and the brass tone reading as one considered object rather than a range of options. That single finish is not a shortage so much as a point of view: this is a fitting designed to be recognised, not endlessly varied.