O & G Studio Debuts its First Lighting Collection

The Ayla chandelier takes its name from the Turkish word for the halo of light that surrounds the moon.

The art deco-influenced design of the Lido five-globe chandelier nods to nautical architecture found on classic ocean liners.

O&G Studio creative director and CEO Jonathan Glatt with a Colt High-Back Armchair.

The studio employs about two dozen craftspeople in its 20,000-square-foot Warren, Rhode Island, factory, housed in a former mill.

The wood-turning techniques used in furniture making show up in the studio’s Cardinal chandelier, which is inspired by the similarly shaped cardinal buoys used to mark boating hazards.

Thames and Wayland side chairs await finishing.

Amboy bases become sconces, pendants, flush mounts, and lamps.

A Windsor-style chair would hardly be the first item of furniture that comes to mind when envisioning a contemporary home, but Warren, Rhode Island’s O&G Studio has a way of blending classic styles with modern aesthetics that allows its handcrafted seating, tables, case goods, and beds to find a place far beyond traditional colonial homes.

Now, the evolutionary design principles of creative director and CEO Jonathan Glatt are informing a new lighting collection as well.

Glatt, a jewelry designer by education and a furniture maker by trade, unveiled O&G Studio’s Eventide Lighting Collection in May, with sconces, chandeliers, flush mounts, and pendants all inspired by New England’s timeless vernacular—and the region’s close relationship with the sea.

Handmade from solid hardwood turnings, the thirty lighting designs, crafted in the company’s Warren factory, feature brass accents and hand-blown glass. Designers take note: the fixtures are available in twenty-one finishes and can be customized according to drop length and configuration.

“Lighting is what makes a room inviting and warm,” Glatt says. “Wood is a rich material, and you get shadows and subtle highlights across a textured material that is very different than with a metal fixture that’s highly reflective and more linear. It’s what really makes these pieces come alive.”

Everything from nautical buoys, pottery, and flowers to the art deco railings on ocean liners inspired the collection, says Glatt, which isn’t surprising given his career trajectory.

“When I worked at Sotheby’s, I saw this parade of furniture that spanned about three centuries,” Glatt recalls. “When you see that much of something, you begin to understand how one design slowly morphs into others. Design really is a flip-book where things begin at one place and, through small changes, arrive somewhere else.”

O&G Studio, Warren, R.I., oandgstudio.com