Bedside lampsA floor lamp for the living room
For choosing the one floor lamp to stand beside your sofa and armchair. The lamps were chosen for the light they give and how they're made, all originals from their makers, with a cheaper lamp beside an expensive one.
Decide what the lamp is for before you choose one. Reading in a chair wants light you aim at the page; lighting the room in the evening wants a shade that glows. One lamp rarely does both well.
Light to read by
Put the light on the page and not in your eyes: beside the chair or a little behind it, on the side away from the hand you write with. A good arm stays where you leave it.
The bulb matters too. A warm one with good colour rendering (how faithfully it shows colours, 90 or more is good) makes a page and a face look right.
Soft light for the room
A shade that hides the bulb, whether paper, pleated fabric or opal glass, lights the room evenly and kindly in the evening. What tells these apart is the height (low to sit beside, tall for a corner), the material and the light source.
- Bulb you can change: you choose how warm and how bright, and a new bulb is all it needs.
- Built-in LED: the Matin and the Asteria. The light can't be replaced, only the lamp.
Warm and dimmed is kinder in the last hours before bed.
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