Rotlux

Backlit block of alabaster glowing on a workshop bench

Alabaster lighting, made in our workshop — quarried, carved and mounted by hand.

Each stone took 100,000 years

Macro of backlit alabaster showing honey and amber veins

The makers, not the middlemen

We don't resell light. We carve it from stone.

Every Rotlux piece begins as a raw block of natural alabaster. We select it at the quarry, read its veins by hand, carve and sand each shade in our own workshop, then mount it on solid brass. No two pieces are alike — because no two stones are.

The quarry

It starts in the ground

We source blocks of natural alabaster straight from the quarry. Each one carries its own map of honey and amber veins — formed over a hundred thousand years.

Reading the vein

We choose by hand

Every slab is held up to the light and read for its translucency and grain. Only stones that glow the right way are kept — the rest go back.

Hands hand-sanding a carved alabaster shade

Carved by hand

Shaped in our workshop

Each shade is carved, turned and hand-sanded in our own atelier — never cast, never mass-produced. The tool marks are part of the piece.

Mounting a glowing alabaster shade onto a solid brass fixture

Mounted & lit

Finished on solid brass

The finished stone is mounted on solid brushed brass, wired, and lit for a final check. Only then does it carry the Rotlux name.

Artisan working alabaster lighting pieces in a calm workshop

The atelier

Made to order, one at a time

We don't hold warehouses of identical stock. When you order, your piece is made — the stone chosen, carved and finished for you. It takes a little longer. It's worth it.

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