A friend of mine who does custom wood work introduced me to one of his customers who was looking for someone to make a light fixture to hang above her kitchen Island.  She had acquired two antique shutters that she wanted joined end-to-end with a number of lit bottles descending from them.  Her vision was to have a bottles in a variety of shapes and colors that would not only shine down into her kitchen, but also provide an ambient glow for the rest of the large open space.  I quickly realized that the shutters were too weak to support any kind of additional weight, and so built a steel frame that could hold them up and hang the bottles from.  To achieve the clustered look that she wanted, we gathered twenty-one different bottles, and I organized them so that each side corresponded with the other.   I then used ½” steel pipe to suspend the fixture and to hide the electrical wire.  Because I used LED bulbs, the total power consumption of all twenty-one lights is less than two 60w incandescent bulbs, but the output is more than enough to illuminate the kitchen and attract the eye from anywhere in the room.

Approximate Dimensions:

8′ Wide, 18″ Deep, 8′ Tall