Roofs Lamp

A terrace of pitched roofs, gable ends and chimney stacks wraps the shade of this table lamp, so the whole thing reads as a slice of old town centre rather than a plain drum. The rooflines step up and down around the form the way houses do on a sloping street, which gives the piece a silhouette worth looking at even when it is switched off. It belongs in the places a ceiling light is too blunt for: a hall table, a wide windowsill, the corner of a bedroom, a shelf at the end of a run of books. Anyone drawn to architectural models, townscape prints or the general idea of a small city on the sideboard will understand it immediately. Shades like this are a common step for makers moving on from trinkets to household objects, and the rooftop motif gives that step some genuine character rather than another smooth cylinder.