NUVO Lighting 60-6870 Alondra, 1-Light, Mini Pendant Fixture, Polished Nickel Finish with Clear Glass

It takes a single standard medium base (E26) A19 lamp rated up to 60W, and no bulb is included. You supply the lamp, which also means you decide the look: with clear glass and an exposed A19, a filament style bulb reads very differently than a frosted one. Dimming depends entirely on the lamp you install, so for a dimmed circuit pick a dimmable bulb and match it to the dimmer.

The Alondra pendant is rated for dry locations and indoor use only, so it is fine over a kitchen island, a counter, a stairwell, or in a hallway. Keep it out of bathrooms where it would see shower steam, out of covered exterior porches, and away from a sink splash zone. Those openings need a damp or wet rated fixture instead.

It carries a cETLus safety listing and runs on a 120V line, which covers standard residential and light commercial branch circuits in the US and Canada. It is an incandescent-technology fixture, so it is lamp driven rather than integrated LED, no driver to fail and no fixture replacement when the light source goes.

Mounting is ceiling rod type and the whole fixture weighs 2.63 lbs, so a properly secured standard ceiling outlet box handles it without a heavy-duty fan-rated brace. The rod stem means it hangs rigid rather than swinging on cable, which is what you want over a counter.

The frame is steel in a polished nickel finish, with a clear glass shade. Polished nickel is the warmer, slightly softer-toned bright finish, so it pairs with polished nickel faucets and cabinet pulls but will read differently next to chrome or brushed nickel. Only the polished nickel and clear glass combination is offered in the Alondra mini pendant.

Each fixture is only 4 inches in diameter with a cylindrical clear glass shade measuring W:4.75 H:13.38, so these are slim verticals rather than wide shades. On a typical island, two or three spaced evenly is the usual layout, and the narrow diameter means they crowd a sightline far less than a bowl or dome pendant of the same light output.

Yes. Lead is the listed Prop 65 chemical for this fixture, which matters if you are specifying for a California project or a public building where disclosure is part of the submittal package.