Haven Table Lamp

The Haven Table Lamp in Natural - White is 41cm across and 61cm high, with a fabric shade on a textured base. The colour names the base first and the shade second, so the two are different materials. At 61cm it is tall enough for a bedside.

A pale shade on a natural base is the most forgiving lamp combination in a room you have not finished decorating. Neither element commits to a colour, so the lamp works against almost any wall and does not date with a palette.

What a fabric shade does, that a metal or glass one does not, is diffuse the light rather than direct it. That makes for a softer pool and a lamp better suited to a bedside than to a desk.

At 61cm the shade sits near eye level for someone sitting up in bed, which is where it belongs for reading. On a console at 80cm it works differently, washing the wall behind rather than lighting the surface.