There’s something transcendent about the idea of light in the winter season. As the nights grow longer, the ways we brighten our spaces become incredibly important. Pendant lights provide designers from across the globe with a blueprint for innovation, inspiring the creation of stunning, extraordinary designs that transform interiors from above. This week, we’re highlighting five eye-catching pendant lights to provide illumination through the colder months. RINA Barbara Maggiolo In the spirit of the Winter solstice, Rina appears like a floating moon adorning your interior. The spherical shade is made entirely out of white, handblown Murano glass. The shade’s unique texture refracts light as it passes through the glass, resulting in a mirrorball-like quality, creating a beautiful pattern of speckled light in the surrounding space. Available in four sizes, Rina brings a bit of magic to contemporary spaces. MOONSTONE Giopato & Coombes The Italian design duo of Giopato & Coombes has released Moonstone, an entirely incomparable collection that looks unlike any lighting designs we’ve seen before. The different shapes of the Moonstone bring together art, sculpture, and technology by combining the use of contemporary materials, such as thermoformed glass and fiberglass, with more classical elements, such as marble dust and the "Battuto" finish. SUN - LIGHT OF LOVE Tord Boontje Sun - Light of Love is a lighting design unlike any other. Fractal and fluid, this dynamic lighting design almost feels like a living, moving entity. A cluster of 390 metal rays are grafted onto the central body of this suspension lamp, creating a sphere resembling the sun. The double light source—a precise beam directed downward, and indirect, diffused lighting aimed upward—makes Sun – Light of Love ideal for lighting a room, or creating a cozy atmosphere around a table. Available in white or gold. MAEHWA Giopato & Coombes In the Maehwa collection, nature finds its balance in a random yet precise composition. In Korean, Maehwa means "plum blossom." The glass spheres embrace the light source, supported by a cable that flexes slightly. Each element of Maehwa – the modular brass structure, the glass spheres, and the light source, is cohesively organic. Available in transparent, opal white, pale pink or smokey grey glass. KNIT-WIT Iskos Berlin Though knitting is an ancient craft, the untapped potential of this material for lighting design was the driving aspiration behind Made by Hand’s Knit-Wit lamp. The pendant's knitted shade distributes light through the yarn, making each lamp distinctive and decorative. Knit-Wit’s warmth, lightness, and range of sizes and colors allows this beautiful design to easily and naturally find its place in any interior.