Our Alabaster Stone Slope Pendant Light, available in 8" and 12", has been named the winner of Best Dining Room Lighting at this year’s Ideal Home Awards.
It is a significant milestone for the brand, not only as recognition from one of the UK’s most trusted interiors titles, but as a valuable endorsement for customers choosing to invest in considered, design-led pieces for their spaces.
The award celebrates a design that represents a clear progression in Industville’s design language, introducing softness and atmosphere while retaining the architectural clarity that has always shaped our approach.
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A pendant designed for dining spaces
The Alabaster Stone Slope Pendant was entered into the Dining Room Lighting category for its functionality and feel within a dining setting.
Light in a dining room has a unique role. Too bright and a space can feel exposed. Too dim and it loses its sense of warmth and connection. The alabaster gently diffuses light across the table, while soft ambient illumination radiates outward to create a flattering, natural glow for social gatherings and family meals.
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Brass accents hold a translucent alabaster cone shade, suspended above a softly glowing alabaster globe diffuser. The composition balances geometry and nature, with crisp engineered lines meeting the stone’s organic surface.
Installed as a single focal point or in a cluster above a dining table, the pendant provides essential task lighting while serving as a sculptural feature that naturally invites conversation around the table.
For more inspiration, explore our dining room lighting and pendant lighting collections.
The material behind the award
The brief for the alabaster collection was to explore unexpected materiality within established architectural forms, introducing luminosity and softness without losing structure.
Stone is not an obvious choice for lighting, which is exactly what drew us to it. Across the range, we work primarily with metal, glass and stone, materials with inherent character, weight and longevity. Alabaster felt like a natural extension of that philosophy, offering something softer and more atmospheric while still feeling grounded and architectural.
Alabaster has been used for centuries in architectural and ritual contexts, often because of its luminous qualities. Ancient Egyptians valued it for vessels, lamps and ceremonial objects. In medieval Europe, it appeared in sculpture, church fittings and thin panels designed to interact beautifully with light.
Rather than referencing these forms literally, the collection interprets alabaster’s history conceptually. Clean silhouettes allow the stone itself to take centre stage, while metal elements frame and support the material rather than compete with it.
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No two pieces of stone are the same. The veining, density and translucency vary subtly from block to block, giving every pendant its own character and changing the way each piece interacts with light.
Reinterpreting a familiar silhouette
The Alabaster Stone Slope Pendant celebrates the material while maintaining Industville’s design identity. Robust silhouettes are not abandoned, but softened, showing that strength and warmth can exist within a single object.
With pendants, the focus shifted to balance and scale. Industrial silhouettes were softened and slightly enlarged, allowing enough wall thickness for strength while enhancing the stone’s ability to glow from within.
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The clean geometry gives the piece a strong architectural framework, while the alabaster introduces warmth and visual depth. What might traditionally be a purely functional lighting form becomes both an architectural feature and an atmospheric light source.
The pendant works beautifully in dining rooms but also lends itself to kitchen islands, breakfast spaces and hospitality settings where light needs to feel warm, flattering and considered. Discover more kitchen lighting and kitchen island lighting.
From Spanish stone to finished pendant
The production process begins with sourcing the stone in Spain, where alabaster is quarried and supplied in block form. Each block is assessed by hand for clarity, structural integrity and natural characteristics such as veining and density.
Rather than aiming to eliminate variation, these qualities are evaluated and embraced, as they play a key role in how each piece will ultimately interact with light.
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Once selected, the blocks are cut into slabs using diamond saws and lathe machinery, ensuring accuracy and structural consistency. From this point onwards, the process becomes increasingly hands-on.
Each component is shaped, refined and finished by skilled craftspeople who respond to the material as they work, rather than forcing it into uniformity.
Hand-finishing is fundamental to the pendant’s final look and feel. The stone is hand-polished to a matte finish, enhancing translucency while preserving a raw, tactile surface.
Edges are softened by hand, thickness is subtly adjusted, and surfaces are carefully inspected to ensure the stone glows evenly when illuminated. These decisions rely on experience, judgement and sensitivity to the material.
No two pieces are exactly alike
Natural variation is both a challenge and an opportunity. No two blocks of alabaster behave exactly the same way, so consistency must be achieved through careful selection and placement rather than uniformity.
This requires additional time in sorting, matching and finishing components, but it also reinforces the individuality of each piece. Whether the uniqueness comes from the material itself or from the craft of the person working with it, every pendant carries its own character.
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For a more layered scheme, pair pendant lighting with wall lights, including designs that continue the same balance of metal, stone and softly diffused illumination.
Bringing alabaster into contemporary interiors
Ideal for contemporary interiors seeking a softer sense of luxury, the Alabaster Stone Slope Pendant adds texture and visual interest without disturbing simplicity.
In urban or structured spaces, brass complements metal, concrete and architectural finishes, while the stone’s warm translucence softens harder lines and brings a calmer presence to the room.
In farmhouse or more natural settings, alabaster works with timber, plaster, ceramic and aged metals, adding gentle detail without overwhelming the space.
This is where the pendant feels especially relevant to modern alabaster interior design. It brings material depth into the room, but does so in a way that feels settled, atmospheric and easy to live with.
A milestone shaped in stone
Winning Best Dining Room Lighting at the Ideal Home Awards is something we are proud of.
For us, the recognition reflects more than the appearance of a single pendant. It recognises the thinking behind it: the use of natural material, the balance between precision and variation, and the belief that lighting should shape how a space feels, not just how it looks.
The Alabaster Stone Slope Pendant began as an exploration of material, light and form. Today, it stands as an award-winning design shaped by craft, history and the natural beauty of stone.
Explore the Alabaster Stone Slope Pendant Light, or visit our London showroom and design hub to experience the collection in person.
