A dome of gathered fabric, each panel scalloped at its edge, the whole shade gathering at the base into a waist from which a silk tassel hangs, quiet, deliberate, and entirely its own. The Solenne Pleat is the piece in the range that makes a room feel dressed rather than lit.
The tassel is the detail that changes everything. In a range of stone, brass, glass, and cast metal, a silk tassel hanging from a gathered fabric pendant is a declaration, of softness, of craft, of a design sensibility that values finish as much as form. It hangs at the base of the shade like a full stop at the end of a considered sentence, and it makes the Solenne Pleat unmistakably itself.
The shade above it is equally considered. Individual panels of ivory fabric radiate from the brass stem at the crown, each one scalloped at its free edge, each seam a fine ridge that catches the light and gives the dome its texture. When lit, the fabric diffuses warmly and evenly, the scalloped edges softening the profile against the ceiling, the light below spreading in a broad, unhurried pool that fills the room without directing it.
The brass stem running through the centre connects the canopy above to the gathered waist below, the single structural element in an otherwise entirely fabric composition. At 50cm the Solenne Pleat is generous without being imposing. Above a round dining table, a bedroom, or a boutique hotel suite where softness is the brief, it is the pendant that makes every other choice in the room feel right.