Michael McHale Designs is located in Long Island City, New York, just across the East River from Midtown Manhattan – in the heart of artisan/creative New York City.
1024 47th Avenue #2R
Long Island City, NY 11101
(347) 688-0070
“Chandeliers made out of plumbing pipe? What would Louis XIV have thought? Actually, given their playful and original contrast of dripping crystals and muscular pipes, he might have gone for them in a big way.” Read more…
“These chandeliers from Michael McHale combine my favorite elements: something a little industrial meets something majorly glam.” Read more…
“To mix the great outdoors with a chandelier would seem to make an odd cocktail; but Michael McHale knows how to do it. This master of the modern has invented the deconstructed chandelier…Call it industrial chic meets glamor…The (Outdoor Chandelier) casts light with pomp and drama around the immediate environment, maneuvering moonlight and sunlight alike as if they were sculptural elements.” Read more…
“Classy…Praise be to Michael McHale and his hand-wrought chandeliers. (A woman faints.)” Read more…
“Former entertainment lawyer-turned-lighting designer Michael McHale creates chandeliers that are as much about structure as they are shimmering crystal…Michael McHale Designs is drafting a new vision for the chandelier, utilizing such rough and ready materials as patinated brass pipes and fittings, refrigerator bulbs, and appliance tubing in concert with the finest crystal available.” Read more…
“Crystal ornaments dangle on steel threads from the Outdoor chandelier’s 16-inch-wide mount of re-purposed red brass. The rubberized sockets accept not only mini floodlights but also any outdoor bulb with a standard socket.” Read more…
“After years of lusting after some expensive beauties that have popped into my Inbox from design sites, none hit me like the ones presented in the recent newsletter form+function newsletter. The handmade chandeliers from Michael McHale Designs are both aggressively durable looking in an industrial-chic way, and they shimmer like fine jewelry in the way chandeliers should.” Read more…
“Former entertainment lawyer Michael McHale had an artistic epiphany while searching for a chandelier for his Brooklyn Heights apartment and finding nothing to his liking. “Beauty is all around us—in hardware stores, in basements, everywhere,” he says. “It just has to be harnessed in the right way.” So he found distressed brass pipes and fittings with the patina of years of use (reclaimed from building sites), dressed them up with a dazzling array of fine European crystals, and added low-wattage refrigerator bulbs for a soft glow. The result? Simply stunning.” Read more…
“The Billards Chandelier makes a bold statement and brings to any space a synergy of texture and light.” Read more…
“Now you can achieve instant downtown chic in the privacy of your own home as the Tribeca Bar Chandelier becomes available for ordering online. Once an entertainment lawyer, Michael McHale changed his shingle to designer when the custom-built chandeliers, sconces, and lamps he created out of repurposed industrial fittings became a hit with the hip. The Bar Chandelier is a ready-to-light product with an agreeable price.”
“McHale uses reclaimed parts wherever possible (like pipes from Hurricane Katrina sites and from around New York City) and marries them with Bohemian and Swarovski Crystal. His unique aesthetic can be seen in high-profile projects like The Gates Nightclub in New York.” Read more…
(347) 688-0070