Not directly — and this is the most important thing to know before ordering.

Each strap runs from one point on your ceiling, down through a sphere, and back up to another. So a fixture with several spheres needs several fixing points, with wiring run between them.

The two-sphere version — and it catches almost everyone out.

The 2-head spans 79.9″ and drops 110″. The 9-head spans 47.2″ and drops 78.7″. So two spheres is two and a half times wider and more than twice as long as nine.

The reason: the measurement is the distance between the ceiling anchors, not the width of a fixture. Two spheres on straps anchored nearly seven feet apart stretch right across a ceiling; nine gathered close together do not. Choose by the span you want to fill, not by how many stones you want.

Only one version really does. The 3-head Model A — 31.5″ span, 47.2″ drop — suits a room with a 9–11 ft ceiling, over a round table or in an entry.

Everything else needs height. The 5-head wants 10–12 ft, the 9-head 13 ft or more, and the 2-head and 3-head Model B drop 110″ — nine feet two inches. On a standard eight-foot ceiling those would reach the floor. They are stairwell and double-height pieces only.

You choose between leather and woven canvas — and they are not a cheap version and an expensive one. They are two characters at the same quality.

Leather hangs with more weight, holds a crisper edge, and softens and darkens over the years the way a bag or a saddle does. Canvas is lighter, matte, and stays much closer to how it arrived — the quieter of the two in a room that is already busy.

Ask us for a sample if you're undecided. It is a material you'll be looking at every day, and a photograph doesn't settle it.

Yes — and that's unusual. Every strap has its own buckle, so each sphere is raised or lowered by hand, in seconds, with no tools and no electrician.

Almost every other cluster chandelier is set to height by cutting its cords, which cannot be undone. Here nothing is cut. Move the furniture next year, change the arrangement then. The only thing decided permanently is where the anchors go in the ceiling.

Yes, and it is decided by where you place the two anchors for each strap, not by us.

Anchors close together give a deep, narrow drop. Anchors spread wide give a long, shallow sweep across the ceiling. The line between them is drawn by gravity — the same curve a washing line makes — so it cannot be got wrong, but it does mean the anchor positions are worth planning before anyone drills.

Because they're cut from real quarried stone, not moulded. Every sphere carries its own veining, and one or two will glow a little warmer than the rest.

Hung together, that's the first thing you notice — and it's what tells you the stone is real. A set that matched perfectly would have to be resin.

A soft dry cloth on the spheres. Keep water off the stone — alabaster is porous, absorbs it, and leaves a mark that won't buff out.

Wipe the straps dry as well, never damp, and never with any cleaning product. Switch off and let the bulbs cool first. Once or twice a year is plenty.