One of the downsides of a big, cross-country move, is that invariably, things get broken. Like lamps. I bought this Jonathan Adler lamp in white at a sample sale when I was 23, and at the time, it was one of the nicest things I owned. Rob, well, he never really took to it, and so when we unpacked it the other month and it had cracked in-transit, he was actually secretly happy. In the interest of trying new things, we started canvasing Los Angeles and the web for the perfect bedside table lamps that didn’t require mounting, because, we’ve installed enough stuff in our rental without sinking more cords into the wall. We already own a Tolomeo floor lamp, so as much as Rob would have liked to acquire two more, I thought it could be worth mixing things up, and finding something less clinical—albeit clinical in a beautiful way. And so I found these, which somehow we have both come to love: They’re slightly futuristic, but a little traditional, too—and they come in tons of bright colors for me, and basic black for Rob. Done and done.
clockwise, l-r: HAVENHURST LAMP, $425.00, Jonathan Adler; TOLOMEO MINI TABLE LAMP, $300.00, Y Living; ROBERT ABBEY “DELTA” TABLE LAMP IN BLACK, $150.91, Lamps Plus; ROBERT ABBEY “DELTA” TABLE LAMP IN EGG BLUE, $150.91, Lamps Plus.
