Creating magical and evocative stories through objects is central to Stuart Haygarth’s work. For this special Design Museum commission, Haygarth has created the Twenty Twenty chandelier – a collated arrangement of hundreds of pairs of discarded prescription spectacles sourced through the charity Vision Aid Overseas. Haygarth’s design draws an elegant and an analogous line between the glasses’ old and new purposes – from mundane objects which improved sight to a spectacular installation dispersing light through the Design Museum atrium.

This commission was made possible through the generous support of the Tallow Chandlers Company to enable emerging designers to develop new work in lighting.