Brutalist Pendant Light by Felipe Delfinger for Feders L866

Brutalist Pendant Light
Felipe Delfinger for Feders — Forged Iron & Pressed Glass, Mexico, circa 1970s

A striking example of Mexican Brutalist craft. Pressed and molded glass cubes — cobalt, amber, ruby, violet, and smoky clear — each cradled in its own hand-forged iron pod, stacked together into a dense cylindrical form. The glass panels carry impressed relief patterns: botanicals, zodiac motifs, abstract textures. Lit or unlit, it reads as sculpture. Hangs from a heavy iron chain.

About the maker: Feders was a family business based in Cuernavaca, Mexico, with Felipe Derflingher (often spelled Delfinger) serving as the primary designer and owner. He designed lamps and objects — bottles, pitchers, glasses, decanters — many using what he called "caged" or "imprisoned" glass, where hand-blown or pressed glass is set within a metal framework. The Derflinger family, of German descent, arrived in Mexico City in 1860, and the studio became one of the defining voices of Latin American Modernist decorative arts. Today the company continues as Vidrio Artístico de Cuernavaca.

Measures 13" x 15.5"