How firm is the plan? Before you worry on the pendants we can't see?

Same house as below? Or a different house?

I moved and we have bought a different house that we are renovating. The clearance for the island isn’t an issue. The island will be basically what you see in the picture. The only difference is it will be pushed back from the range a couple inches for more clearance. We were going to have a coffee bar behind the stools, which is why you see that measurement on the backside of the island. We have gotten rid of that so the space isn’t too tight. So there’s no clearance issues on any side of the island. Even though the island will be pushed back a couple of inches it still will be located in the same position lengthwise. The rest of the design is going to stay as is because of the beam and in the kitchen. On the other side of the beam, the ceilings are sloped, which you can kind of tell in the 3-D picture
If I put the lights on top of the island, they will be to the left of the range and not centered with the range between them.

I might test it out to see what I thought by blowing up balloons the size of the pendants and hanging them in the space - I think you’ll know one way or another once you do that

We don't see the lights. They aren't always "centered" on a range.

It depends size, how open, how closed. It depends you.

You could consider three....or a more linear fixture 48" inches long. We don't have enough context to advise which or what may suit you

Another thing to keep in mind--you rarely stand in a spot to see the pendants head on aligned with the range. No one will notice.

These are the lights. All hardware is polished nickel. The cabinets are white. The island counter will be black walnut wood.

I can already see the bugs that will collect inside that pendant! Are you willing, and more importantly, physically able to get up on a tall step-ladder to clean them out?

You will also have glare from the exposed bulbs, so make sure the switch has a dimmer.

^ totally agree - fwiw my SIL had a similar fixture in her kitchen and about lost her mind with the dust and debris that collected in the bottom of it

totally my opinion but the islands looks pretty ornate - i’d go with super simple pendants for balance

These are a similar nightmare................despite she wanted them badly

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The concept is you've broken up the entire space into separate kitchen cabinet runs of little "independent symmetrical entities" - a symmetrical sink run and a symmetrical cooktop run. So your worry now are the pendants over an island, where the island is not symmetrical to the cooktop run, nor sink run, nor space, nor symmetrical within it's own counter footprint, will look off with the pendants centered on the island.

They will not.

Also, FWIW the end stool on the island will be sitting under a beam and change in ceiling height. That is not a comfortable feeling as compared to the other stools.

Just put the pendants over the island, yes - your eye will relate them to the island underneath and not to other things. Maybe not those exact pendants though, for all the reasons mentioned, I concur.

3onthetree has put their finger on this obsession with symmetry in kitchen design lately - "little independent symmetrical entities"! It is so odd to me as it is out of step with reality and the use & experience of 3d space. My theory is that kitchen/cabinet salespeople noticed that designer kitchens often have a symmetrical focal wall, and when they show clients 2D elevations that are symmetrical they discovered the client goes WOW, that looks good, sell me that-- not realizing the tradeoff of function or lack of suitability in the overall room.

Some of the symmetry-heavy kitchen designs I see lately remind me of the rigid formal garden designs from the 1700's. So stiff and lifeless! Not that yours is - just my current rant here.