Bespoke Hotel Chandelier: JagMag’s Blue Bird Flock at Hyatt Regency

Picture this. You walk into a five-star hotel lobby after a long flight. Marble floors. Tall wooden columns. And then you look up — and stop.

Hanging above you is a giant golden ring. And perched on it, wing to wing, are hundreds of glowing blue glass birds.

Not one chandelier. A whole flock of them, floating across the ceiling. This is the bespoke hotel chandelier JagMag designed and built for Hyatt Regency Addis Ababa.

That is what guests see at the Hyatt Regency in Addis Ababa. And here’s the part that makes us proudest: this bespoke hotel chandelier family was designed and built by JagMag Lights — an Indian manufacturer — and shipped across the sea to Africa’s diplomatic capital.

Let me tell you the full story.

Quick answer

The blue bird chandeliers at Hyatt Regency Addis Ababa are a bespoke hotel chandelier project by JagMag Lights, a Make-in-India lighting manufacturer. Each fixture is a set of tiered golden rings carrying hand-formed blue borosilicate glass birds, with soft lamps glowing inside. Multiple matching chandeliers were custom-built for the hotel’s ground-floor lobby — from engineering drawings to final installation.

In this story

• What makes this bespoke hotel chandelier project special?
• Project at a glance
• Real photos from the Hyatt Regency lobby
• How we built it, step by step
• Why hotels pick a manufacturer, not an importer
• Want this look? Start here
• Your questions, answered

What makes this bespoke hotel chandelier project special?

Most hotel chandeliers are safe. Crystal. Gold. Sparkly. Seen one, seen them all.

The Hyatt team wanted something guests would remember — and photograph. So the design started with a story, not a fixture: a flock of birds gathering at golden rings of light.

Here’s how the design works, in three layers:

1. The golden rings. Each chandelier is built like a tiered umbrella — three to four round metal rings stacked from small at the top to wide at the bottom. The rings step outward as they come down, so the whole fixture opens up like a canopy.

2. The blue birds. Around every ring sit rows of blue birds, each one formed from borosilicate glass. That’s a tough lab-grade glass — the same family used in high-end labware — that handles heat and keeps its rich colour for years. Every bird perches on the ring with its long tail sweeping down, so the bottom edge of the chandelier looks like a fringe of falling feathers.

3. The glow. Inside the rings, soft golden lamps light the birds from within. The blue glass catches the light and the whole flock shimmers — turquoise at the wings, deep ocean blue at the tails.

One bird is a pretty object. Hundreds of them, arranged in glowing rings across a lobby ceiling? That’s a landmark.

Now you might be thinking — birds, rings, coloured glass… can a chandelier like this even be engineered safely at hotel scale? Keep reading. The drawings are below.

Project at a glance

Real photos from the Hyatt Regency lobby

These are not renders. Every photo below is the real bespoke hotel chandelier work — on site, lights on, birds in place.

How we built it, step by step

A project like this lives or dies on engineering. Here’s how it went from idea to installed:

1. The brief. The hotel’s design team wanted sculptural, artistic lighting for the ground-floor lobby — something site-specific, not from a catalogue.
2. The drawings. Our team produced full technical drawings — top views, front views, mounting details, stainless steel suspension plates. You can see the actual binder in the photo above, complete with approval stamps.
3. The bird. Before making hundreds, we made one. A single blue borosilicate glass bird sample travelled with the drawings for approval, along with metal finish swatches for the rings.
4. The build. Rings were fabricated, lamps wired, and every glass bird formed and fixed in our own factory in Greater Noida. Because we customise chandeliers in-house, design changes took days, not months.
5. The install. The fixtures were shipped, hung on rigid rods from the slatted lobby ceiling, and aligned so the flock reads as one continuous design across the space.

Here’s the thing. A bespoke hotel chandelier is never just one big object. It’s hundreds of small parts that must arrive perfect, hang level, and keep working year after year — in another country.

Why hotels pick a manufacturer, not an importer

A five-star brand can buy lighting from anywhere in the world. So why does working with a true manufacturer matter?

JagMag Lights is a DPIIT-recognised, government-funded Make-in-India manufacturer. Every fixture — including this export project — is built in-house in Greater Noida. That’s why a global hotel brand could trust the order, and why it still glows today.

Want more help planning a large fixture? Our guide to choosing a chandelier for banquet halls and hotel lobbies covers sizing, brightness and placement, and our chandelier size guide gives you the simple maths. For lighting principles behind hospitality projects, designers also swear by Cameron Design House’s guide to bespoke hotel lighting, and you can read more about borosilicate glass and why it lasts.

Want this look? Start here

You don’t need a Hyatt budget to bring sculptural glass home. A few pieces from our range carry the same DNA:

For a double-height lobby or stairwell: the Glass Feather Chandelier — a 150 cm cascade of hand-blown glass feathers. Same idea as the birds: nature, frozen in glass.

For a living or dining room: the Wave Chandelier with 69 cascading glass leaves — a Ø75 cm ring of flowing glass with integrated LED.

For a staircase: the Talar 300 cm Murano glass column — a dimmable tower of glass for tall voids.

And if you run a hotel, clubhouse or banquet hall and want your own one-of-a-kind piece — see how we did it for a Mumbai hotel lobby and a Noida tower lobby, then talk to us. Your bespoke hotel chandelier can go from drawing to installed in 15–20 working days.

Your questions, answered

Who made the blue bird chandeliers at Hyatt Regency Addis Ababa?

JagMag Lights designed and manufactured them in-house in Greater Noida, India, and the fixtures were installed in the hotel’s ground-floor lobby. It is a 100% Make-in-India export project.

What is borosilicate glass, and why use it for the birds?

It’s a tough, lab-grade glass that resists heat and shock far better than ordinary glass. The colour is in the glass itself, so the blue never peels or fades — important when a fixture must look new for decades.

Can JagMag make a bespoke hotel chandelier for my property in India?

Yes. Every project starts with your space and story — we handle drawings, samples, manufacturing and installation. Custom pieces typically take 15–20 working days, against 60–120 days for imported custom work.

What happens if a glass bird breaks five years later?

We remake it. Because we own the manufacturing, spare parts stay available 10+ years after installation — no hunting for a discontinued import.

How big should a hotel lobby chandelier be?

A quick rule: add the room’s length and width in feet — that total in inches is a sensible diameter, and you can size up for double-height lobbies. Keep the lowest point at least 7–8 feet above the floor in walking areas.

So, next time you walk into a hotel lobby — look up. If the light above you tells a story, someone built that story piece by piece. Want yours to be next?