Decor trends usually creep in slowly — first here, then there — until suddenly, they’re everywhere. That was not the case with cluster pendant lights — a trend that blindsided me (in the best way) even as a style editor who tracks new collections daily. But it was a welcome surprise: we’re nearing the end of 2024, and I’m convinced this pendant lighting idea will still be my obsession well into 2025.
Seemingly overnight, designers — Gwyneth Paltrow included, with her latest Goop x CB2 collaboration — started delivering these elegant-yet-industrial draped fixtures. It’s tricky reinventing the wheel in this category (lights have more or less looked the same for a century) but this lighting trend does it with an understated brilliance. It’s the perfect blend of masculine and feminine, so simple that one wonders why we didn’t think of this sooner.
