Eira Table Lamp

This table lamp is 46cm square and 56cm high, in fibreglass with a crisp white finish and a rounded organic form. It weighs 8kg and takes one E27 globe up to 40W. Control is by a hand-operated switch on the cord.

The white version of this form is the more difficult one to place and the more rewarding. A large white object in a room reads as furniture rather than as lighting, so it needs somewhere to belong: an entry console, a corner with nothing else pale in it, or a run of neutral ceramics it can join.

Unlit, it is a sculptural object. That is worth saying plainly, because a 56cm white form takes as much visual space switched off as on, which is not true of a shaded lamp that disappears when it is dark.

The smooth curve is what makes the material work. Fibreglass takes a continuous compound surface that ceramic at this size would struggle with, and the absence of any seam or join is the whole reason to choose the material.