Standalone Lamp
Objects | Lighting
A pair of floor lamps: hollow shafts of plain honey onyx, 45 inches tall, lit from within, on teak bases.
- Medium
- honey onyx, oiled teak
- Category
- Objects | Lighting
- Year
- 2026
Standalone Lamp
Two floor lamps, each a hollow shaft of honey onyx standing on a base of oiled teak. The light is inside the shaft, and the onyx is the shade. There is no other part to see. A lit onyx column is a candle at the scale of a room: the stone glows from within, and its veins become the pattern of the light, which is why the stone is left plain.
Onyx is a banded stone that light passes through. Honey onyx is a warm cream crossed by soft bands and traces of amber, and at the thickness of these walls it transmits enough light to read as a lantern while still looking like stone when it is off. The shaft is open at the top, so a little light escapes to the ceiling. It stands on the teak by its own weight, and the fitting inside is not drawn, because the stone is the lamp.
The pair lit, showing the bands in the stone.
They stand as a pair, either side of a sofa or flanking a doorway, because two columns make a threshold and one makes a post. Off, they are two plain shafts of pale stone on wooden plinths. On, they are the only light the room needs in the evening, and the light is the colour of the stone.
The detail is the proportion of base to shaft: the plinth is a little more than twice the shaft on each side. That is the width a column of stone this tall needs to stand on a rug without a fixing, and it is also the width that makes the base read as a plinth rather than a foot.
Shaft 102 mm square, 1,143 high overall; walls 18 mm; base 229.
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