In 2022, Emily Del Bello started a new tradition for her interior design business: an annual trip to Paris, hunting the flea markets for the rare and the beautiful. On one of those trips, she found herself less interested in the antiques than in her guide's earrings: Dior, she'd later learn, an asymmetric study in pearls and delicate chains. She couldn't stop thinking about them.

Back in New York, a newsletter from Blueprint landed in her inbox. Emily, a longtime friend and client of our CEO, Kelly Aaron, had an idea: what if those earrings became a lighting collection, marrying Parisian chic with New York edge?

She brought the idea to Kelly, and in our Midtown showroom, over what became many long conversations, the collection took shape: Alla and Lucie, each named for a Dior muse, each carrying a little of that asymmetry reimagined in metal and light.