The Staccato Collection
The Staccato Collection brings together Astraeus Clarke’s refined metalwork and Devin Wilde’s sculptural ceramics in a gorgeous collaborative lighting series.
One of the highlights of this year’s NYCxDesign festival was the launch of The Staccato Collection, which debuted at Astraeus Clarke’s moody Manhattan showroom on a buzzy Friday night.
The series brings together elegant ceramics and precision metalwork in a lighting collection designed to suit both residential and commercial spaces.
Since founding the studio in 2022, Chelsie and Jacob Starley have developed a unique design language based on celestial motifs, hand-crafted materials and an atmospheric sense of glamour. From the Western-inspired lighting of the Alpine and Darning series to the polished drama of the Vesper furniture line, each release has expanded the studio’s world a little further – and The Staccato Collection is no different.
Created alongside Brooklyn-based ceramicist Devin Wilde, known for his sculptural furniture and vessels, the series brings together elegant ceramics and precision metalwork in a lighting collection designed to suit both residential and commercial spaces. It includes wall sconces, pendants and chandeliers crafted from ceramic conical forms, each finished with Wilde’s signature spherical finials and connected through Astraeus Clarke’s custom-engineered cast star bolt structures.
The collaboration itself emerged organically through an ongoing friendship between the two studios, and the creative process evolved through conversation and experimentation. “We both came to the table with ideas, sketches and instincts,” Jacob says. “But it quickly became clear that there was a shared sensibility, we weren’t forcing anything. The forms just made sense together.”
The chandelier iterations are the most dramatic, designed for double-height entryways, dining rooms and expansive hospitality spaces. Cascading ceramic forms curve from slender metal frameworks, creating a silhouette that is reminiscent of a bouquet of flowers. The pendants and wall sconces offer a more intimate expression, scaled to bring warmth to smaller, residential interiors. Whether repeated throughout a larger project or installed as a singular focal point, every iteration feels connected through materiality and form.
The contrast between the expressive, handmade ceramics and machined metal components is key to the series. “A principal element of my work is exploring forms that feel both ancient and distinctly modern,” Wilde says. “This collection really captures that, especially in how the imperfect, organic ceramics interact with the precision of the metal framework.”
The studios drew on the romance of Italian summer – with “sun-washed coastal villas, storied interiors and the cinematic glamour of evenings that stretch long into the night” providing fertile ground for inspiration. Metal components are available in either aged brass or polished nickel finishes, each with matching stars. The ceramic glazes come in deep iron red, glossy black, creamy neutral, oxidised copper blue and a natural stone hue. All are made to order and handcrafted by Wilde in his Brooklyn studio, while Astraeus Clarke fabricates the metal components and assembles the final fixtures in-house.
