Inspiration

collaboration with Amsterdam’s BCXSY studio, transforms telescopic imagery of constellations into abstracted, mattepainted images. Even this collection’s color names take us on a journey into the universe: Corona, Andromeda, Ursa, Cassiopeia.

Health Ceramics , a studio in Sausalito, California, has a new glaze — Cosmos — that evokes deep space and star-filled galaxies for a vase collection. The swirling mixture of dark and light blues and glossy black create the effect.

There are more starry ceramics at West Elm : A collection of inky blue salad plates is scattered with pinpoints of gold constellations.

Avant-garde Italian design house Seletti collaborated with Diesel Living on a porcelain plate collection, Cosmic, with patterns evoking Jupiter, Venus, the sun and the moon. Also from Seletti: the whimsical Lunar brass tabletop storage containers shaped like retro spaceships.

Luceplan took home an NYCxDesign award in May for Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken’s Amisol, an oversize pendant fixture composed of translucent white film or metallized mirror stretched inside an aluminum circle. The large, almost weightless disk resembles a solar sail, either reflecting or diffusing the light.

Antiqued brass turns an eight-pointed star pendant fixture at Arteriors into a warm yet dramatic fixture; its shallow profile makes it a great option for low ceilings.

ARTHUR WOODCROFT — LEE BROOM VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS This photo provided by Lee Broom shows the Orion Tube and Orion Globe lights hung horizontally and are part of Broom’s new Observatory collection. It was on a visit to a friend in the Cotswolds that Broom found the inspiration for Observatory. “I am a...