Bad Roman Los Angeles Custom Lighting Design

For Bad Roman’s Beverly Hills location, I was commissioned to design and fabricate the restaurant’s full custom lighting program — a body of work spanning sculptural chandeliers, a signature illuminated centerpiece, and hand-blown glass neon wall sconces, each built specifically for the space in collaboration with the design team at GRT Architects. Eight Spiraling LED Chandeliers The dining room’s ceiling is anchored by eight custom chandeliers, each built around a complex spiraling LED form. Rather than a single fixture, each chandelier is engineered as a dimensional sculpture — light coiling through space rather than simply hanging from it — designed to hold its own as a piece of art while still functioning as the room’s primary lighting. The Boar Necklace The restaurant’s signature piece is a custom LED “necklace” designed and fabricated to wrap precisely around the neck of Bad Roman’s boar emblem — a detail commissioned to become one of the most photographed and recognized elements of the space. The piece is LED lighting mounted to hand-shaped metal, fitted with exact precision to the boar’s form, turning a decorative detail into the restaurant’s visual signature. Eight Neon Tendril Sconces Working closely with the design team, I developed a set of eight neon tendril wall sconces — hand-bent glass tubing shaped into organic, vine-like forms and filled with helium gas for their signature glow. Each sconce is fully hand-fabricated glass neon, built to bring warmth and movement to the walls surrounding the dining room. The result is a restaurant where the lighting isn’t a backdrop — it’s part of the architecture itself, custom-built at every scale from the ceiling down to the smallest sconce. Featured in Dezeen, Hospitality Design, and TrendHunter following the restaurant’s opening in 2026.