Noctis Table Lamp

This table lamp is 46cm square and 56cm high, moulded in fibreglass with a matte black finish and a rounded body. It weighs 8kg and takes a single E27 globe up to 40W. A hand-operated cord switch controls it.

Fibreglass at this scale gives a lamp a presence that a shaded lamp cannot. There is no shade at all: the body is the object, and the light works around it rather than through it, which makes this a mood piece rather than a task light.

Eight kilograms is the specification that makes that safe. A 56cm form with no ballast in the base would tip; this one has the mass distributed through the moulding, so it stays where it is put.

A warm globe is worth choosing deliberately here. Against a matte black body a cool white light reads as clinical, where a warm one softens the silhouette and gives the shape somewhere to fade into.