You can invite the guests, prepare the dinner, travel out of town to find the right drinks. You can dress the table with napkins, cutlery holders and a crockery set to impress. Yet a dining table setting just isn’t the same without a light at its centre. The ancients used candelabras; today, we use pendant lights. These forty pendant lights bring a glow to your table and a focal point to your dinner party. Entertain guests under painted gold, embrace retro charm with a sputnik chandelier, create focused illumination with downlights, or gentle illumination with Edison bulbs. Take a peek at your next dinner table feature in our list below.
PH5 Pendant Replica
A replica of the original worth $848, these multi-tiered pendant lights mimic the beauty of the fuschia. Hang them above a bouquet of flowers for a simply stunning way to light a table.
Ronde Pendant
Inject masculinity into your dining room, with Oliver Schick’s debut design. These aluminium bells flood light across their table from their white interiors.
E27 Socket Pendant
Fill your room with idea bulbs, with these glass and silicone socket creations. Available in a range of colours, let them stir up the light above your dining room table.
Caviar Pendant
Glass and steel with a brown nickel finish make these unusual bulbs glow with fury. Hang them as a trio above a wooden surface, for a simple lighting fixture with a twist.
Aplomb Suspension Lamp Replica
The art deco dining room would be a perfect fit for these fluted greys. Hung from near invisible strings, their matte surface evokes a contemporary feel in an everyday fixture.
Castle Concrete Pendant
Concrete isn’t the first material to come to mind for your dining room lampshade. These industrial domes work both indoors and outdoors with their water-resistant surface.
Copper & Wood Finish Pendants
Continue the industrial look with these large pendants above your kitchen table. Wood and copper work together to shed light through tiny perforations.
Beat Pendant Replica
Beat pendants always steal the show in a kitchen or dining room. This copper-interior pendant is no exception, and charges only a fraction of the price of the original.
Beat Lights
Shape your beat pendants your way – in an upside-down trumpet, sand timer or classical vase. These white-painted beauties appear unified above a dining table side by side.
Roll & Hills Agnes Chandelier Replica
Monochrome networks of spangling LEDs create dining with a difference. Hang this replica above a black or white table, for a chandelier that ties together all the elements.
Octo Pendant 4240 Replica
Natural birch wood forms a cocoon in this inspiring fixture. Pop it above a wooden table and afront white walls for ultimate lightness and brightness.
Secto Pendant
Designed by Seppo Koho and hand crafted in Finland, this understated design draws people into conversation. Choose from birch, walnut, black or white for your meal time finish.
Ambit Pendant
Hand-painted aluminium sheds light on your table without too much brightness. Pick sheer pink or four other pastel shades, for a dreamy interior that packs a punch.
Clava Dine Pendant
Reflect light horizontally through your dining and kitchen area. This aluminium pendant looks space age and behaves it, too.
Aim Multi-Light Pendant
Black and white camera lights add a touch of drama to a room. This multi-light pendant combines three in one, with a monochrome design draped around different corners.
Caravaggio P4 Pendant Replica
Dangle a pendant from your ceiling to draw guests to the dinner table. This stunning replica based on the original subtly and stylishly marks the eating place.
Larmes Mini Low Volt Round Pendant
Polished chrome sparkles in these low-voltage finds. Cluster them beside your kitchen wine glasses for a magical lighting effect.
Everly Glass Pendant
A bronze glaze brings a hint of the olden to these vase-shaped pendants. Use their bulbous glass forms to inject subtle design interest.
Grain Pendant
Bamboo fibres and polypropylene are the unusual materials behind these Scandinavian fixtures. Colour them in teal or six other pastel shades for a low-key partner to your kitchen bench.
Unfold Pendant
Look like they’re made of silicone rubber? We didn’t think so either. These multi-coloured finds inject a modernist edge into the most simple of dining room environments.
Copper Globe Pendant
Know a rose-gold lover who reads a bit of sci-fi? These globes are plated copper on the outside, chrome on the inside for a luxurious and intergalactic dining room approach.
Panton VP6
Focus your dome’s rays with the Panton VP6. Their aluminium exteriors and copper inners light up the best parts of your favourite dinners.
Moon Scraplight Pendant
Cardboard looks sophisticated in these moon-shaped domes. Hang their intricately-cut forms over a wooden or brown-hued table for the ‘can’t be cardboard’ effect.
Intergalactic Ceiling Light
Metal slats assemble a kaleidoscope in this white light. Hang it beside white curtains for a dreamy vibe reminiscent of the East. If you are planning to go for an astronomy or space theme, do check out our post: 50 Space-Themed Home Decor Accessories To Satiate Your Inner Astronomy Geek.
Carmina Pendant
Receive your dining room light in one flat package. Its polycarbonate and eco-friendly polypropylene design will whip your dinner guests up in a frenzy.
Linear Suspension Light
Vertical in form and innovative in nature, this rolled metal creation has a few tricks up its sleeve. Coated in rubber, a hidden LED beams through its panels for a light that seems otherworldly.
Ariana LED Pendant Light
Bring the wind chime to your dining table. These painted grey LEDs chime in unison, for an easy-to-achieve contemporary look at home.
Piper Dining Pendant
Suspend these metal cylinders as low as they can go, with six feet of suspension cable.
Vibia Slim Pendant Replica
Lost hope in the search for the thinnest kitchen light? Look no further than these blink-and-you-miss-them classy kitchen fixtures.
Volta LED Pendant
Go for a structure that the neighbours won’t be boasting. This aluminium bow design doubles over itself to shed light across the table.
Lyrique 6-Light Chandelier
Tungsten bulb-ended rods form a fixture you can adjust at your own pace. Get just the right angle with its gold-painted metal twisting and turning on axes.
Under The Bell Pendant
A surprising and innovative find lies in this recycled PET polymer light. Designed to keep your conversations ‘under the bell’, it focuses light and sound to help the quieter ones be heard again.
Dome One Pendant Light
Painted bronze on the inside and black on the outside, these large domes keep those seated at the table bathed in golden light. House their LED forms in pairs, or as the central feature of a small table.
Vertigo Pendant
Get caught in a twister with this metal, iron and fiber glass-shaded find. Its vertical storm is a stunning display for an open kitchen and dining area.
Heracleum II Replica
Designed to look like a flower, this light literally blooms out with bursts of bulbs. A white table against a darker wall best illustrates its beauty.
Random Light Replica
Captivate your dinner table audience with your own spider web. Three colour choices and a one year manufacturer’s warranty make this replica of an original hard to ignore.
Corona Pendant
Metal and an acrylic frosted shade mimic the ring of plasma that surrounds the sun. This light thinks outside the box and into your monochromatic kitchen.
Smithfield Pendant Replica
Add a simple dome high up above your table setting. These aluminium and polycarbonate lights come in two colour replicas of the famed original.
Cala Pendant
Also available in flush mount, this black and white hollowed circle is a minimalist’s dream. Hang its convex diffuser above a simply-coloured setting to focus on the food.
Six Light Piping Chandelier
For those after a trace of steampunk, this metal piping chandelier is the find for you. Suspended from a metal chain, its an interesting addition to industrial style lighting.