Table Lamps & Desk Lamps

Table lamp bases are where material and form intersect most directly. The base is what you’re looking at 90 percent of the time — the shade is functional. The bases here come from places where material craft is taken seriously.

Crackled ceramic bases with two-tone glaze finishes from Indian pottery workshops. Silver-branch sculptural bases where the lamp base is a cast tree form with a glass ball housing the bulb. Repurposed market pot lamps where a ceramic vessel got a new life. Matte ceramic bases with bronzed accent hardware. Three-shade metal mesh designs for spread ambient light in a reading area. Tripod bases in silver metal with clean mid-century proportions.

Bulb type affects the quality of light more than the shade does — a warm 2700K LED in a tripod lamp produces a different result than a daylight 5000K in the same fixture. Worth thinking about before purchasing if lighting quality is the goal.

All lamps on the floor are plugged in and lit for evaluation. Come in during daylight hours when you can actually assess the quality of the light output.