Photos: Innovators: Designer Brendan Ravenhill

Furniture and lighting designer Brendan Ravenhill, right, runs his small industrial design studio out of his Echo Park home. At left, designer Dash Krehel. (Christina House / For The Times)

June 20, 2014 9:30 AM PT

The omnipresent designer -- he has done restaurant interiors, licensed accessories for West Elm and Areaware and has a show of new lighting at Fifth Floor Gallery -- takes us inside his Echo Park studio.

Brendan Ravenhill handles a chandelier prototype in his Echo Park studio. (Christina House / For The Times)

Upstairs, Ravenhill notes the wood relief on his new Grain pendant. (Christina House / For The Times)

Matt Hunt assembles components for a light. All parts are sourced out to local manufacturers in Los Angeles. (Christina House / For The Times)

The Pivot chandelier (starting at $5,000), with spun-aluminum shades, hangs in Ravenhill’s living room. (Christina House / For The Times)

Furniture designer Brendan Ravenhill is captured underneath the Grain pendant he designed in his Echo Park home. (Christina House / For The Times)

The Grain pendant lamp features a wood grain impression on the inside of the spun aluminum shade. (Christina House / For The Times)

The La Buca chair, left ($495), and the Black Chair ($460) line up in the window of Ravenhill’s live-work space. (Christina House / For The Times)

The Hood chandelier in white oak ($3,000). (Christina House / For The Times)

At the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York in 2013, Ravenhill demonstrates how his pliable Cord chandelier ($2,000) pendant is like a toy. (Michael Nagle / For The Times)

Osteria La Buca interiors, which Ravenhill redesigned, feature his chandeliers and La Buca chairs. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)