Haven Floor Lamp

This floor lamp has a solid mango wood base 20cm square and 120cm high, under a shade 53cm across and 40cm high. The shade is pressed paper over an acrylic inner on a wire frame. It weighs 19.36kg.

The proportions here are the point. A 53cm shade on a 20cm base is a deliberate imbalance, and it is what gives the lamp its presence: the eye reads a wide soft form floating above a narrow timber stem, which is a more interesting silhouette than a proportional lamp produces.

Nineteen kilograms is heavy for a floor lamp and that is a feature rather than a cost. A wide shade at this height catches any knock, and the mass in the base is what stops it going over.

Position it beside seating rather than behind it. The shade's lower edge sits above head height for anyone seated, so the light falls outward across the room rather than down onto a book, which suits ambient use and not reading.