Until a few years ago, Michael McHale was an entertainment lawyer whose creative output consisted mainly of handling the legal work of creative people. This lifestyle choice has been called “adjunct creativity” by people who reflect upon these things, and McHale found it deeply unsatisfying.
Fed up with the law but not sure what to do with his life, McHale walked into a design store one day to purchase a light fixture for his New York apartment. Unimpressed with either the materials or the message of what was on offer, he thought he could do a better job himself. What he ended up making proved to be more interesting than he had hoped. His choice of materials — industrial pipes and fittings drenched in fine crystal — conveyed a powerful message of what is capable of beauty when considered properly. The work became an affirmation of what’s possible– much like McHale’s own late artistic blooming.
Since MMD began in the Autumn of 2007, McHale’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Dwell, Interior Design Magazine and in dozens of other design / lifestyle publications and blogs. His chandeliers have hung in the living rooms of celebrities and taste makers, industry big-wigs and design aficionados. McHale’s modern chandeliers have been featured at the American Express VIP Room at Fashion Week in New York, in drop-dead Hamptons beach houses (both the kind with helipads and the kind without helipads but with really beautiful swimming pools), Aspen ski houses and Taipei living rooms. You can see his work in restaurants, nightclubs and designer showrooms from New York to Moscow. It all looks just great.
With the Tribeca Collection, McHale is making his signature industrial-chic look available to a much wider audience with an unprecedented price point.
