Sisalana chandelier

Angela Damman, an American designer, works with the native plant fibers of Yucatán from her studio in a late-19th-century henequen hacienda at Telchac Pueblo, northeast of Mérida, giving them new sculptural forms with artisans from neighboring Maya villages. She grows her own fibers there, among them henequen, sisalana agave and sansevieria, and Architectural Digest wrote in May 2026 of "the shaggy chandeliers that have made Damman a rising design star."

Her studio wrote in 2019 that sisalana, an agave endemic to Yucatán, gives a white fiber the Maya used before colonization, and that it was wiped out during the region's "green gold" era to make way for henequen; it was thought to survive in only two places, one of them her hacienda. The studio says its Sisalana chandeliers are inspired by "the origin of sisalana agave."