How Pinch’s Loofah-Like Anders Pendant Became an It Light

Anders pendants seem to be a favorite in relaxed, convivial dining areas. San Francisco–based AD100 studio Geremia Design suspended one over a rustic St Vincents table in a Japanese-inspired Bay Area abode and AD PRO Directory member Augusta Hoffman hung another in a rehabbed Brooklyn Heights apartment, capturing the reflection of the light in a mirror positioned above the fireplace.

Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon with their Gargagh arm chair and Soren globe light

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New York firm Pappas Miron also incorporated Anders into a library-like Greenwich Village dining room. “Typically, we hunt for vintage lighting but occasionally we fall for great new designs,” explains cofounder Alexandra Pappas, noting the luminaire’s warm glow. “It feels like an update on the classic Akari hanging fixtures.”

For a renovation in Austin, local AD PRO Directory designer Viki Chupik chose Anders to anchor the dining table that seamlessly blends into the living room. She first encountered the pendant years ago and was so taken by its ethereal luminosity, she immediately knew she wanted it to shine in this project. Here, the rippled textile “echoes the fluted plaster detailing in the fireplace and provides a layer of softness and femininity,” Chupik elaborates.

Starting this week, Anders and an array of other Pinch creations will be taking up residence at New York’s Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery—the first American pop-up for the brand outside of its representation with the Future Perfect. The exhibition will remain on view until October 8.

Silver-foiled, hand-painted glass imbues the Landry coffee table with a moody, iridescent effect.

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The Lilio candelabra is among the new Pinch designs popping up at Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery.

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Happening in tandem with Pinch’s 20-year milestone anniversary, the takeover of this fourth-floor gallery will showcase Pinch’s new 12-piece range of furniture and lighting, including the leather-and-oak Colton dining chair and heroic Onis dining table. The Lilio line, also on view, stars a wall light, pendant, and candelabra that reimagine 18th-century Swedish iterations with abaca fiber shades, and the elliptical Landry coffee table, which evokes England’s Lake Windermere with a mélange of timber and hand-painted glass. “It’s deep green, almost swampy looking. I told Russell to make it like something out of Flash Gordon,” shares Bannon.

Most importantly, the pop-up is a chance for Pinch and Bannon to mingle with a large swath of their robust, furniture-passionate American audience—Anders lovers included. “The industry relies so much more on designers in the US,” says Bannon. “Americans have an energetic appetite for how spaces reflect changing personalities and styles.”

The Colton chair by Pinch, which will be on display at Jacqueline Sullivan this month

In the beginning, the duo was happy when customers serendipitously discovered them, and for Pinch to organically grow through word of mouth alone. But now “we want to lean into that confidence and be purposeful,” admits Bannon. “I think we have a sophisticated product offering and it’s time we took it to a greater portion of the world.” Might that mean a future brick-and-mortar home in New York? Bannon isn’t ruling it out. “So far in our journey,” she adds, “opportunities present themselves.”