RECHARGEABLE ALABASTER LAMPS

A natural stone, soft enough to be cut thin and translucent enough to let light pass straight through it. That is unusual: most stone stops light at the surface. Cut down to a few millimetres, alabaster carries it.

Yes, the whole shade is cut from a block of alabaster, not moulded from glass or resin. You notice it in the weight when you lift the lamp, and you see it in the veining, which runs differently through every single shade.

It makes the shade the light source. Where glass keeps a clean outline and porcelain lights up along a printed relief, alabaster glows all over and shows its own grain while it does. Switch it off and it is a piece of stone; switch it on and the stone becomes the lamp.

Marble in Calacatta Viola, Bianco Statuarietto, Rosa Aurora, Verde Alpi and Calacatta Vionaro, travertine in Red, Silver and Classic, or wood. Two stones on one lamp, one carrying the weight and the other carrying the light.

Yes. The alabaster shade twists off by hand, the same fitting we use across the range, so it can also sit on a Rijks or Nordic base. The shades are sold on their own in the lampshades collection, and the system behind it is the modular collection.

The smaller models carry 5000 mAh and run 10 to 100 hours; the larger ones carry 8000 mAh and reach 15 to 120. Three light colours, from a very warm 2200K through 2700K to a neutral 4000K, and charging is over USB-C.

Close, never identical. Every shade is cut from a different part of the block, so the veining lands somewhere else each time and the glow follows it. Two lamps of the same model belong together without being copies.

The shade. In the Rijks Collection it is glass or linen, in the Maera Collection it is printed porcelain, and here it is stone. The bases overlap, the fitting is the same, and the light is what sets them apart.