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Lighting · Modular system · 2026

Drewdrops

A lighting system that behaves like dew on a web. A stainless steel cable mesh that can be reshaped to a space, with borosilicate glass light modules set wherever the room needs them.

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Drewdrops modular lighting system: The mesh from below. Glass modules at three densities.
The mesh from below. Glass modules at three densities.

Dew on a spiderweb is a lighting system that nobody designed: a flexible structure, points of light wherever the geometry allows, and a different pattern every morning. Drewdrops borrows that logic for the spaces where one fixed chandelier never quite fits, hotel lobbies and double-height receptions.

The structure is a stainless steel cable mesh that can expand, contract, and reshape to a room. The number, placement, and density of light modules are chosen per space. Each module is a borosilicate glass drop with an LED inside, held by a machined brass node, and each one can be detached, repaired, or replaced on its own. The system gets longer life and less waste from that one decision.

What you see from the floor is not the mesh. It is the halos and shadows the glass throws onto stone, shifting as you walk under it.

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Shan Askarian (Shahab Askarian), industrial designer and marketing strategist
About the designer

Shahab (Shan) Askarian

Industrial designer and marketing strategist in Los Angeles. MBA candidate at UCLA Anderson. National champion in industrial design; eight international design awards in 2026. Former Director of Marketing Communications at Snapp (50M+ users).

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