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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life
Slide Nr 1This is it. This is the year you realise your home’s true potential, transforming your space from a quarantine bunker of necessity into the home sweet home you’ve always wanted. Falling on the practical side of the redesign spectrum, lighting often takes a back seat to more dramatic changes, like big-ticket furniture items and fancy accent walls. But we’ll let you in on a secret: Lighting is one of the quickest, easiest and most affordable ways to reinvent an entire room. From the high-concept to the whimsical, these table lamps prove our point.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 2Take Table Lamp by Kartell – A quintessential design with a knowing wink: Kartell’s Take lamp, from the mind of Ferruccio Laviani, is formed by two polycarbonate plates that each take the shape of half a lamp – complete with pleated lampshade – for a playful, self-referential effect. Available in 10 cheeky and luminous colours.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 3Mid-Century Walnut Table Lamp – Lamps are all about light, but with this spiral beauty, the shadows are almost as important. Handmade from walnut wood in Cologne, Germany, this lamp will look stunning on any desk or bedside table by day or night, when it casts an enchanting shadow play around the room.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 5Artus Table Light by Tom Raffield – This stark and delicate lamp by Cornwall-based Tom Raffield is a study in thoughtful design: Each slender birch dowel is fitted into a laser-cut birch ply base, veiling the blown-glass exposed-filament bulb within, and casting hair-thin shadows when illuminated. That the wood is sustainably sourced, and steam-bending techniques are used to replace toxic glue and minimise waste – well that’s just the icing on the high-concept cake.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 6Whimsical Designs by Seletti – A Romanesque bust blowing bubblegum? Check. A tiny King Kong swinging from a streetlamp? You bet. A stairway to nowhere? Uh huh. A seductive banana? Yep. If you can dream it, Seletti has already made it into a lamp. Check out the irreverent Italian brand’s range of quirky luminaries to infuse your space with a little fun.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 7Woven Bedside Light by Modern Gesture – Ever admired a beautiful African necklace and thought, “I’d like to have that as a lamp”? No? Well this striking design by Candice Lawrence may just change your mind. Made in her Cape Town workshop using recycled wood cut-offs – and delivered flat-packed to reduce the environmental impact of shipping – this lamp could be the new highlight of your bedroom decor.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 8Steampunk Lamps – The Edison aesthetic never goes out of style. Nor, it seems, does steampunk. Add a touch of retrofuturism to your space with a steampunk-inspired lamp, like this one, this one or this one – all handmade and one-of-a-kind.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 9Knuckle Table Lamp by Tala – An organic take on the classic Edison light, but also so much more: This lamp is made from FSC-certified oak with a tactile in-line dimmer, using minimal-waste production techniques. But the cherry on top is the signature Voronoi I bulb, mouth-blown with smoothed edges to simulate natural erosion, and housing a spiral LED filament that mimics the Fibonacci sequence. The result? A new perspective from every angle.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 10Blooming Table Lamp by Leah Goren – Sometimes you just need something pretty to liven up your tabletop. As sublime as a fresh spring bouquet, this hand-painted lamp by Brooklyn-based illustrator, surface pattern designer and author Leah Goren may be just the thing.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 11Wick Portable LED Candlelight – The romance of a flame, the convenience of a portable lantern. Settling somewhere between ‘lamp’ and ‘flashlight’, Wick is a rechargeable LED light fashioned like a classic candlestick holder to illuminate any dinner à deux, bedside table or intimate patio.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 13Gothic Cathedral 3D Puzzle Lamp – Looking for an illuminating weekend activity? This intricate lamp in the form of a Gothic cathedral arrives as a 120-piece birchwood 3D puzzle, complete with arches, gables, flying buttresses and, of course, lamp parts included. Put it together, light it up, and show it off to everyone you know.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 14Matin Table Lamp by Hay and Inga Sempé – With its stark geometric lines, the angular base contrasting with the elegant curves and creases of the pleated cotton lampshade, this creation by French designer Inga Sempé is the epitome of simple elegance. Plus it comes in six colours, from mellow lavender to high-octane red and an exquisite emerald green.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 15Ada Marble Table Lamp – Perhaps marble countertops aren’t in the budget this year, but you can indulge your love of the finer things with this stately table lamp. Its marble base and black shade simply ooze sophistication – enough to make your home office feel like a C-suite. For an equally elegant but more affordable alternative, opt for the brass version with an ivory jute shade.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 16Ziggi Lamp by Studio Cheha – Perhaps your home office is more ‘Disney’ than ‘Wall Street’. In that case, we recommend this delightful design by Tel Aviv creatives Studio Cheha. An unexpected reimagining of the standard swing arm desk lamp, the Ziggi poses the question, “What if the lampshade was the actual light?” And then answers it with a 2D optical illusion.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 17Palm Leaf Table Lamp – Whether you’re a proud plant parent or were born without a green thumb, this sleek palm leaf lamp will enhance your space with an understated natural touch. Its minimalist industrial countenance – made of oxidised iron and aluminium with a no-frills base and ‘stem’ – belies a certain tropical flair, making it a versatile piece that can feel at home in just about any room.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 18Ceramic Lamps by Virginia Sin – You may think you know what this series of lamps by Brooklyn-based ceramicist Virginia Sin symbolises, but think again. Each lamp in the collection represents an iconic US mountain: the tall one is Alaska’s Denali, the small one is Washington’s Mima Mounds, and the midsize one is Kanamota in the San Francisco Bay Area. With curves emulating the mountainous terrain, and a light bulb standing in for the sun, each lamp sports a refreshingly minimalist design.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 19Cone Lamp by Nick Hammond – Sleek, chic and sustainable: UK-based woodworker Nick Hammond uses FSC-certified wood for his lighting and furniture creations, giving each a high-quality finish with natural oil and wax. Most of his designs cut a refined figure in a mid-century modern or Scandinavian style, much like this one.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 20Riad Table Lamp – Featuring a filigree shade hand-cut from semi-precious metals (bronze, copper and nickel silver) sourced locally in Morocco where the lamp is made, this is a truly unique piece with the power to transform a room. What’s even more transformative: The company guarantees its talented Moroccan artisans a fair wage and reasonable working hours, as well as ample training and development opportunities.
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No Shade: 20 Brilliant Table Lamps To Light Up Your Life.
Slide Nr 21Barrel Lamp by Klaylife – Admittedly quite the investment piece, but well worth it: These impressive, one-of-a-kind lamps are made from hand-rolled beads by village women in rural Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, whose work supports their economic independence. Place it prominently in your space, and watch the compliments flow. [Photo: klaylife.com]
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