Build Your Chandelier
Star-Shaped Glass Tube Chandelier
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Choose Metal Finish
⌀ 11″ × H 14.6″
8 glass pieces · 1 bulb
Choose Glass Color
Amber
Tea Brown
The Solaine Tiered Glass Tube Flush Mount steps three rows of hand-blown glass tubes outward from a gold-tone ceiling canopy, each tube hung on its own small hook. Every tube carries a deep bark-like texture worked into the glass while it was still molten — closer to weathered wood than to anything cut.
Lit, the texture takes over. Light travels down the length of every tube and catches in the vertical grain, throwing a soft radial pattern onto the ceiling around the canopy — the detail you only notice once it's installed, and the reason a textured glass ceiling light reads warmer than a flat diffuser ever does.
Made to Order
Make It Uniquely Yours
Love the design but need it tailored to your space? We offer comprehensive customization — dimensions, surface finishes, chain and wire lengths, and more. Tell us your vision, and we'll take care of the rest.
Share Your Idea
Message us online for an immediate response to your brief.
Expert Consultation
We advise on size, colour, and finish for your room.
We Craft It
Made to spec and inspected before it ships.
Shaped by Breath & Fire, Not a Machine
Every ribbed glass tube is mouth-blown by hand — which is exactly why the light looks the way it does.
Molten Glass, Shaped by Hand
Each ribbed tube begins as a glowing gather of molten glass on the end of a blowpipe. A glassmaker breathes it into shape by hand, turning and drawing the fluted ribs while the glass is still soft. It's slow, skilled work — and it leaves each piece with a life that machine-pressed glass simply can't have.
Ribs That Catch the Light
Blown by hand, the fluted ribs bend and scatter every beam, casting rippling patterns of light and shadow across your walls — a texture flat glass can't reproduce.
Depth & Clarity
Hand-blown glass carries a substantial, thick-walled clarity with real depth — it refracts a soft glow even in daylight, never the thin, hollow look of acrylic.
Made, Not Manufactured
Every ribbed tube is the trace of a maker's hand and breath — an artisan piece, not a molded copy stamped out by the thousand.
The same hand-blown tubes, arranged two ways — stepped in tiers overhead, or hung in a single row on the wall.
What You See Is What You Get
Rippled glass tubes in every colourway — up close
The flush-mount base plate and hardware, in detail
Described Honestly
Materials, sizes and finishes are listed exactly as they are — including where hand-blown glass varies from piece to piece.
Genuine Materials
Real hand-blown glass and metal hardware — never acrylic, never plated plastic. Photographed as it leaves our workshop, not rendered.
Safely Packed
Every tube is checked, individually wrapped in thick protective foam, and boxed separately from the canopy and hardware to survive the journey.
The Details
Good to Know
Made for low ceilings
Because the tiers step outward rather than downward, this piece has the mass of a tiered chandelier while sitting tight against the ceiling. It suits 8 ft ceilings, bedrooms, hallways and anywhere people walk directly underneath — the rooms where a hanging fixture would crowd the space or catch a head.
About dimming
Dimming depends on the bulb, not the fixture. Fit dimmable E12 / E14 bulbs on a compatible dimmer and it will dim smoothly.
Sloped or vaulted ceilings
Worth knowing before you order: a flush mount sits parallel to the ceiling, so on a sloped ceiling the whole fixture tilts with the slope rather than hanging level. A chain-hung fixture is the better choice there. Tell us the pitch before ordering and we will advise — on a very shallow slope this design still reads correctly, but beyond that it will look wrong. (Explore the matching chain-hung chandelier)
Which Size for Your Space
Three sizes, from a compact hallway fixture to one that anchors a whole room. Every one sits flush to the ceiling — no rod, no chain, no drop to calculate.
On an 8 ft ceiling this leaves about 6'8″ of headroom beneath it.
The most forgiving of the three — right for most rooms in a house.
Leaves about 6'4″ beneath on an 8 ft ceiling — centre it, don't put it in a doorway.
Sizing Tip
With a flush mount, diameter is the decision and drop is not — there is no rod or chain to work out. Add your room's length and width in feet and read the sum as inches: a 9 × 11 ft room points at roughly 20 in, a 12 × 14 ft room at roughly 26 in. Over a dining table instead of open floor, take two thirds to three quarters of the table width.
Then check headroom, because it is the one number people forget. On a standard 8 ft ceiling these leave 6'8″, 6'7″ and 6'4″ of clearance underneath, smallest to largest. That is comfortable over a bed, a sofa, a table or the middle of a room — but it is not enough directly in a doorway or a walkway someone tall passes through. On a 9 ft ceiling all three clear 7 ft easily.
Between two sizes, go larger if the ceiling is 9 ft or more, smaller if it is 8 ft and the fixture sits anywhere people walk. The tiers step outward rather than downward, so extra diameter costs you nothing in headroom.
Made for the Ceiling You Actually Have
All the presence. None of the drop.
Most decorative lighting is designed for houses with height to give — double-height entries, stairwell voids, ten-foot dining rooms. If your ceilings are eight feet, which most ceilings are, you are usually handed a flat disc and told to make do. The Solaine began in that gap.
The move was to rotate the growth. Instead of tiers falling one below the next, they step outward — three widening rings of hand-blown glass tubes hung from a single canopy, each tube on its own small hook. The mass comes from diameter rather than drop, which is how you get the rhythm and depth of a tiered chandelier in a piece that sits barely more than a foot from the ceiling.
The light follows the same logic. Each tube carries light down its own length and catches in the grain worked into the glass, throwing a soft radial fan across the ceiling around the canopy — the detail nobody photographs and everybody notices once it is up. You get the piece, and you still get to walk underneath it.
Chandelier Presence, Without the Drop
Three tiers of hand-blown glass that grow outward instead of downward — built for the ceilings most houses actually have.
Three Sizes, Nineteen to Sixty-Three Tubes
The design scales by widening rather than lengthening. The smallest carries nineteen hand-blown tubes and suits a hallway or powder room; the largest carries sixty-three and anchors a living room or main bedroom. A compact guest room and an open-plan space can share the same language without either looking borrowed from the other.
Colour Worked Into the Glass
The tint enters the molten batch rather than being sprayed onto a finished surface, so it deepens where the tube wall runs thick and lifts where it thins. In the pink colourway that reads as a true ombré — warm blush at the canopy fading to lilac at the lowest tier. Aqua keeps a room cool and clean; clear works through texture alone. Nothing to chip, nothing to fade.
Hand-Blown Glass, Hung Tube by Tube
Every tube is blown by hand and the vertical grain worked in while the glass is still molten, so the texture sits in the material rather than on it — nothing to scratch off, nothing to wear away. Each one hangs from its own small hook along the gold-tone canopy, nothing sealed into a housing, which gives the tiers a natural unevenness no mould can copy and means a single damaged tube is replaced on its own.
— Hand-blown glass tubes, hung on a gold-tone canopy —
Why Hand-Blown Glass
Glass is not one material. What breath and hand tools give you, a steel mould cannot.
ness Wall thickness and grain depth wander tube to tube — no two identical, no two fixtures either Stamped from one die; identical down to the millimetre
tion Every tube hooks onto its own point — a single damaged tube is replaced on its own Sealed into one moulded housing; damage usually means replacing the whole fixture
Common Questions
Will this work with an 8 ft ceiling?
Yes — that is exactly what it was drawn for. Because the tiers step outward rather than downward, the mass comes from diameter instead of drop, so you get the presence of a tiered chandelier without giving up headroom.
The real numbers: on a standard 8 ft ceiling this leaves 6'8″ under the smallest size, 6'7″ under the middle, and 6'4″ under the largest. That is comfortable over a bed, a sofa, a table, or the centre of a room. It is not enough directly in a doorway or a narrow walkway a tall person passes through — put the larger sizes where people gather rather than where they walk. On a 9 ft ceiling all three clear 7 ft easily.
Is the glass really hand-blown?
Can I install it on a sloped or vaulted ceiling?
This is the one place a flush mount is at a disadvantage, and it is worth knowing before you order. A flush mount sits parallel to the ceiling, so on a slope the whole fixture tilts with the slope rather than hanging level. A chain-hung fixture hangs plumb no matter what the ceiling does; this one does not.
On a very shallow pitch it still reads correctly. Beyond that it will look wrong, and no adapter fixes it — an angled canopy kit only makes the base sit flat, which is the opposite of what you need here. Send us the pitch of your ceiling before ordering and we will tell you honestly whether this is the right fixture or whether you want a chain-hung piece instead.
Why aren't the tubes identical to each other?
Will the pink ombré look the same as the photographs?
How bright is it?
Each size is lamped for its diameter — 3, 6 and 9 bulbs from smallest to largest — so this is a genuine room light rather than an accent piece. Fit warm-white LEDs and the largest size will comfortably carry a living room.
Colour makes a difference worth knowing: clear transmits the most light, aqua a little less, and the pink ombré least of the three, since tinted glass absorbs as well as colours. If the room needs maximum output, choose clear; if it needs atmosphere, choose the tint.
What bulbs does it take, and can it be dimmed?
Which size should I choose?
Is it difficult to install?
How do I clean it, and what if a tube breaks?
A soft dry cloth for dust, barely damp for marks, wiping down the length of each tube rather than across it. Avoid abrasive pads, solvents and glass sprays containing ammonia — the grain traps residue. Always switch off and let the bulbs cool completely first.
Every tube is individually wrapped and foam-seated for shipping, with the canopy and hardware boxed separately. If something arrives damaged, send photographs within 24 hours of delivery and the affected part is replaced. Because each tube hooks on independently, a single broken tube never means returning the whole fixture.
The Complete Installation Guide
Not sure how to wire it, how high to hang it, or whether you need an electrician? Our full guide walks through every step for US homes.
Power Off First
Switch off at the breaker and confirm before you touch any wiring.
Check the Box
Make sure your junction box is standard, secure, and rated for the weight.
Match the Wires
Black to black, white to white, ground to ground — the US standard explained.
Set the Height
Mounting heights and clearances for sconces, pendants, and chandeliers.
Solaine Tiered Glass Tube Ceiling Light
The price includes tax, and free standard shipping within the U.S. is provided.
Between two sizes? Size up.
The gaps between the tubes let the ceiling show through, so this one reads lighter than its measured diameter. Our field notes work through the rest — the sizing formulas for round and rectangular tables, hanging heights by ceiling, and how the tube form compares to a petal one.
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Build Your Chandelier
Star-Shaped Glass Tube Chandelier
Choose Size
Choose Metal Finish
⌀ 11″ × H 14.6″
8 glass pieces · 1 bulb
Choose Glass Color
Amber
Tea Brown
The Solaine Tiered Glass Tube Flush Mount steps three rows of hand-blown glass tubes outward from a gold-tone ceiling canopy, each tube hung on its own small hook. Every tube carries a deep bark-like texture worked into the glass while it was still molten — closer to weathered wood than to anything cut.
Lit, the texture takes over. Light travels down the length of every tube and catches in the vertical grain, throwing a soft radial pattern onto the ceiling around the canopy — the detail you only notice once it's installed, and the reason a textured glass ceiling light reads warmer than a flat diffuser ever does.
Made to Order
Make It Uniquely Yours
Love the design but need it tailored to your space? We offer comprehensive customization — dimensions, surface finishes, chain and wire lengths, and more. Tell us your vision, and we'll take care of the rest.
Share Your Idea
Message us online for an immediate response to your brief.
Expert Consultation
We advise on size, colour, and finish for your room.
We Craft It
Made to spec and inspected before it ships.
Shaped by Breath & Fire, Not a Machine
Every ribbed glass tube is mouth-blown by hand — which is exactly why the light looks the way it does.
Molten Glass, Shaped by Hand
Each ribbed tube begins as a glowing gather of molten glass on the end of a blowpipe. A glassmaker breathes it into shape by hand, turning and drawing the fluted ribs while the glass is still soft. It's slow, skilled work — and it leaves each piece with a life that machine-pressed glass simply can't have.
Ribs That Catch the Light
Blown by hand, the fluted ribs bend and scatter every beam, casting rippling patterns of light and shadow across your walls — a texture flat glass can't reproduce.
Depth & Clarity
Hand-blown glass carries a substantial, thick-walled clarity with real depth — it refracts a soft glow even in daylight, never the thin, hollow look of acrylic.
Made, Not Manufactured
Every ribbed tube is the trace of a maker's hand and breath — an artisan piece, not a molded copy stamped out by the thousand.
The same hand-blown tubes, arranged two ways — stepped in tiers overhead, or hung in a single row on the wall.
What You See Is What You Get
Rippled glass tubes in every colourway — up close
The flush-mount base plate and hardware, in detail
Described Honestly
Materials, sizes and finishes are listed exactly as they are — including where hand-blown glass varies from piece to piece.
Genuine Materials
Real hand-blown glass and metal hardware — never acrylic, never plated plastic. Photographed as it leaves our workshop, not rendered.
Safely Packed
Every tube is checked, individually wrapped in thick protective foam, and boxed separately from the canopy and hardware to survive the journey.
The Details
Good to Know
Made for low ceilings
Because the tiers step outward rather than downward, this piece has the mass of a tiered chandelier while sitting tight against the ceiling. It suits 8 ft ceilings, bedrooms, hallways and anywhere people walk directly underneath — the rooms where a hanging fixture would crowd the space or catch a head.
About dimming
Dimming depends on the bulb, not the fixture. Fit dimmable E12 / E14 bulbs on a compatible dimmer and it will dim smoothly.
Sloped or vaulted ceilings
Worth knowing before you order: a flush mount sits parallel to the ceiling, so on a sloped ceiling the whole fixture tilts with the slope rather than hanging level. A chain-hung fixture is the better choice there. Tell us the pitch before ordering and we will advise — on a very shallow slope this design still reads correctly, but beyond that it will look wrong. (Explore the matching chain-hung chandelier)
Which Size for Your Space
Three sizes, from a compact hallway fixture to one that anchors a whole room. Every one sits flush to the ceiling — no rod, no chain, no drop to calculate.
On an 8 ft ceiling this leaves about 6'8″ of headroom beneath it.
The most forgiving of the three — right for most rooms in a house.
Leaves about 6'4″ beneath on an 8 ft ceiling — centre it, don't put it in a doorway.
Sizing Tip
With a flush mount, diameter is the decision and drop is not — there is no rod or chain to work out. Add your room's length and width in feet and read the sum as inches: a 9 × 11 ft room points at roughly 20 in, a 12 × 14 ft room at roughly 26 in. Over a dining table instead of open floor, take two thirds to three quarters of the table width.
Then check headroom, because it is the one number people forget. On a standard 8 ft ceiling these leave 6'8″, 6'7″ and 6'4″ of clearance underneath, smallest to largest. That is comfortable over a bed, a sofa, a table or the middle of a room — but it is not enough directly in a doorway or a walkway someone tall passes through. On a 9 ft ceiling all three clear 7 ft easily.
Between two sizes, go larger if the ceiling is 9 ft or more, smaller if it is 8 ft and the fixture sits anywhere people walk. The tiers step outward rather than downward, so extra diameter costs you nothing in headroom.
Made for the Ceiling You Actually Have
All the presence. None of the drop.
Most decorative lighting is designed for houses with height to give — double-height entries, stairwell voids, ten-foot dining rooms. If your ceilings are eight feet, which most ceilings are, you are usually handed a flat disc and told to make do. The Solaine began in that gap.
The move was to rotate the growth. Instead of tiers falling one below the next, they step outward — three widening rings of hand-blown glass tubes hung from a single canopy, each tube on its own small hook. The mass comes from diameter rather than drop, which is how you get the rhythm and depth of a tiered chandelier in a piece that sits barely more than a foot from the ceiling.
The light follows the same logic. Each tube carries light down its own length and catches in the grain worked into the glass, throwing a soft radial fan across the ceiling around the canopy — the detail nobody photographs and everybody notices once it is up. You get the piece, and you still get to walk underneath it.
Chandelier Presence, Without the Drop
Three tiers of hand-blown glass that grow outward instead of downward — built for the ceilings most houses actually have.
Three Sizes, Nineteen to Sixty-Three Tubes
The design scales by widening rather than lengthening. The smallest carries nineteen hand-blown tubes and suits a hallway or powder room; the largest carries sixty-three and anchors a living room or main bedroom. A compact guest room and an open-plan space can share the same language without either looking borrowed from the other.
Colour Worked Into the Glass
The tint enters the molten batch rather than being sprayed onto a finished surface, so it deepens where the tube wall runs thick and lifts where it thins. In the pink colourway that reads as a true ombré — warm blush at the canopy fading to lilac at the lowest tier. Aqua keeps a room cool and clean; clear works through texture alone. Nothing to chip, nothing to fade.
Hand-Blown Glass, Hung Tube by Tube
Every tube is blown by hand and the vertical grain worked in while the glass is still molten, so the texture sits in the material rather than on it — nothing to scratch off, nothing to wear away. Each one hangs from its own small hook along the gold-tone canopy, nothing sealed into a housing, which gives the tiers a natural unevenness no mould can copy and means a single damaged tube is replaced on its own.
— Hand-blown glass tubes, hung on a gold-tone canopy —
Why Hand-Blown Glass
Glass is not one material. What breath and hand tools give you, a steel mould cannot.
ness Wall thickness and grain depth wander tube to tube — no two identical, no two fixtures either Stamped from one die; identical down to the millimetre
tion Every tube hooks onto its own point — a single damaged tube is replaced on its own Sealed into one moulded housing; damage usually means replacing the whole fixture
Common Questions
Will this work with an 8 ft ceiling?
Yes — that is exactly what it was drawn for. Because the tiers step outward rather than downward, the mass comes from diameter instead of drop, so you get the presence of a tiered chandelier without giving up headroom.
The real numbers: on a standard 8 ft ceiling this leaves 6'8″ under the smallest size, 6'7″ under the middle, and 6'4″ under the largest. That is comfortable over a bed, a sofa, a table, or the centre of a room. It is not enough directly in a doorway or a narrow walkway a tall person passes through — put the larger sizes where people gather rather than where they walk. On a 9 ft ceiling all three clear 7 ft easily.
Is the glass really hand-blown?
Can I install it on a sloped or vaulted ceiling?
This is the one place a flush mount is at a disadvantage, and it is worth knowing before you order. A flush mount sits parallel to the ceiling, so on a slope the whole fixture tilts with the slope rather than hanging level. A chain-hung fixture hangs plumb no matter what the ceiling does; this one does not.
On a very shallow pitch it still reads correctly. Beyond that it will look wrong, and no adapter fixes it — an angled canopy kit only makes the base sit flat, which is the opposite of what you need here. Send us the pitch of your ceiling before ordering and we will tell you honestly whether this is the right fixture or whether you want a chain-hung piece instead.
Why aren't the tubes identical to each other?
Will the pink ombré look the same as the photographs?
How bright is it?
Each size is lamped for its diameter — 3, 6 and 9 bulbs from smallest to largest — so this is a genuine room light rather than an accent piece. Fit warm-white LEDs and the largest size will comfortably carry a living room.
Colour makes a difference worth knowing: clear transmits the most light, aqua a little less, and the pink ombré least of the three, since tinted glass absorbs as well as colours. If the room needs maximum output, choose clear; if it needs atmosphere, choose the tint.
What bulbs does it take, and can it be dimmed?
Which size should I choose?
Is it difficult to install?
How do I clean it, and what if a tube breaks?
A soft dry cloth for dust, barely damp for marks, wiping down the length of each tube rather than across it. Avoid abrasive pads, solvents and glass sprays containing ammonia — the grain traps residue. Always switch off and let the bulbs cool completely first.
Every tube is individually wrapped and foam-seated for shipping, with the canopy and hardware boxed separately. If something arrives damaged, send photographs within 24 hours of delivery and the affected part is replaced. Because each tube hooks on independently, a single broken tube never means returning the whole fixture.
The Complete Installation Guide
Not sure how to wire it, how high to hang it, or whether you need an electrician? Our full guide walks through every step for US homes.
Power Off First
Switch off at the breaker and confirm before you touch any wiring.
Check the Box
Make sure your junction box is standard, secure, and rated for the weight.
Match the Wires
Black to black, white to white, ground to ground — the US standard explained.
Set the Height
Mounting heights and clearances for sconces, pendants, and chandeliers.
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Glass Shaped by Hand
Heat, patience and steady hands in every piece.
Handmade Glass Series
Glass Shaped by Hand
Every glass shade in this series is made by hand. Artisans gather molten glass, then turn, stretch and shape it with heat and hand tools until the form feels just right.
No two pieces leave the workshop exactly alike. The small differences in curve, thickness and tone are what give handmade glass its warmth and depth.
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Formed in the heat
The glass is worked while it is still molten, so every curve is guided by eye and feel instead of being stamped out as identical parts.
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Shaped with hand tools
Traditional tools are used to pull, pinch and smooth the glass, leaving the subtle marks of the maker's hand in the finished piece.
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Cooled slowly for strength
Finished pieces are cooled gradually so the glass settles evenly, helping it stay strong and stable in everyday use.
Tiny bubbles, faint swirls and slight shifts in color are natural in handmade glass, and they make each piece one of a kind.
