Eny Lee Parker’s Mitzi Collab Promises Her Playful Lighting at an Affordable Price Point
If you’ve been lusting after Eny Lee Parker’s iconic Oo Lamp but a $5,000 light fixture simply isn’t in your budget, you’re in luck. The New York City–based designer has teamed up with direct-to-consumer lighting brand Mitzi on a line of affordable lamps, sconces, and pendants that range from $138-$990, and they are just as stunningly playful as her handmade creations.
“I loved the idea of designing something that has more of a democratic price point and is more accessible to the mass market,” Eny says. “Being able to partner with a bigger company that’s been around for over 60 years, that knows what it’s doing, and has a whole workflow with manufacturers made that possible. My mom or my friends could afford this.”
Eny’s new collection is the third installment of Mitzi’s Tastemaker series, which spotlights rising artists like Dabito and Tali Roth by sharing their designs with a wider audience. The collaboration with Eny is two years in the making and has evolved significantly since it began, with each piece undergoing multiple iterations before arriving at the final products, which launch today.
Some of Eny’s Mitzi fixtures, like the Bacia sconces and Maia lamps, echo the handcrafted designs she offers through her studio—but for a fraction of the cost. “Naturally, when you have a small studio, you’re making everything by hand,” she explains. “And this is located in New York. Your overhead is so big and it takes so much time to make products that the price point is going to be much higher.”
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Other pieces are more of a departure from Eny’s recognizable work. “I was really excited to do the Elsa collection, which is a little more organic,” she says. “It’s inspired by cherry blossoms in Korea, but toned down and modernized. It’s something that I wouldn’t necessarily do through my studio, because it’s a little more complicated. The initial sketches looked so different, but I installed it in my apartment and I ended up really enjoying it.” If it’s good enough for Eny, it’s good enough for us.
