Alabaster Lighting
Alabaster is a natural, translucent gypsum stone. Carved thin, it turns a bare bulb into a warm, even glow with no glare — closer to candlelight than frosted glass. Because it's cut from raw stone, the grain shifts piece to piece. That variation is the point.
Alabaster reads best where you look straight at it — a sconce beside a mirror, a pendant low over a dining table, a flush mount in a hallway. Keep the bulb warm: 2700K sits with the stone's honey tone, and anything cooler fights it. And because the stone diffuses so much of what it is given, one alabaster fixture rarely lights a room on its own. Treat it as the warm anchor and fill in around it.
New to the material? Read what alabaster is and how to choose it, check which colour temperature to run, then layer the rest of the room. For the same stone-cut softness in a different grain: travertine and marble.
