Brass Uplight Pendant Light – 300 mm Indirect LED Disc | Jagmag Lights

This brass uplight pendant light is a 300 mm brass disc with a flared trumpet dropping through its centre, hung on a twisted fabric cord. The LED sits at the junction and fires upward into the dish, so what you see is reflected light off brass rather than a lamp. 191 mm from the top of the disc to the tip of the finial.

Where it fits

An indirect fitting behaves differently from a shaded one. Hang it where you want the room lit rather than a surface.

• Over a dining table: Because nothing points down at the table, nobody gets a lamp in their eyeline across it. Hang at 75 to 80 cm above the tabletop.
• In a living room or a snug: One in the middle of the room gives soft ambient light with no glare from any seat.
• In a bedroom: Indirect light is the easy answer overhead, and there is no bright spot to look at from the bed.
• Under a low or sloped ceiling: At 191 mm tall it takes up almost no headroom for the spread it gives.

Why you will use it every day

You never see the light source. That is the whole idea.

Most pendants put a bulb inside a shade and point it at you. This brass uplight pendant light does the opposite — the LED fires up into a 300 mm brass dish and the room gets what bounces back. The result is a wide, even, completely glare-free light, and the brass warms it on the way down in a way no white reflector can.

The finial at the tip unscrews by hand. With it on, the fixture is purely indirect. Take it off and you open a small downward aperture as well, which gives you a soft pool directly beneath — useful over a dining table where you want the table itself picked out a little.

The brass is left raw and lightly textured rather than polished, so the reflected light is diffuse instead of mirror-sharp. You can see the grain of the metal in the finish, and it will darken with age rather than staying bright.

It runs an integrated LED module at roughly 880 lumens — about the output of a 60 W incandescent bulb, but all of it delivered indirectly. There is no bulb to buy and nothing to replace.

The cord is twisted fabric rather than PVC, which is the correct detail on a fixture this plain — a moulded cable would undo the whole thing.

We make this brass uplight pendant light in our own Greater Noida factory and hold spare parts for 10 years and more.

Light & finish

880 lumens of indirect light will comfortably handle a dining table or a small sitting room as the main fitting. It is ambient light, not task light — you will still want a lamp for reading.

Because every ray bounces off brass before it reaches you, the light arrives warmer and softer than the module alone would suggest. That is worth knowing if you are matching it to other fittings in the same room.

The disc is 300 mm across but only 191 mm deep overall, so it reads as a thin horizontal plane from across a room and almost disappears when viewed edge-on.

Unlit it is a piece of raw brass — a shallow dish and a trumpet, nothing else. It works against plaster, lime wash and timber, and it suits low ceilings where a tall fixture would crowd the space.