Front Lamp

Lighting is usually the last thing anyone sorts out in a room and the thing that changes it most. A bare bulb throws hard shadows into every corner; a shade breaks that up and gives the light somewhere to settle. This is a lamp form built for that job - the printed alternative to the shop-bought shade you keep meaning to buy and never quite like once it is home. It belongs on a bedside table, a hall console, or the corner of a desk where you want enough light to work by without lighting the whole room. The appeal of making one rather than buying is control. You choose the material and the look, and if the piece stops suiting the room a year from now you run a different one instead of living with it. A sensible project for anyone with a printer and a dim corner.