CORDLESS TABLE LAMPS

Most of our table lamps give about 10 hours at full brightness and up to 100 hours on the lowest setting, and the larger models reach 120. In everyday use that means charging roughly once a week. The exact runtime is on every product page.

The category got a poor name from cheap lamps with small batteries that fade within a year. The battery decides whether a cordless lamp is worth owning, which is why ours carry a large battery and our own LED technology. It is the same thinking behind the modular collection, where a lamp you already own gets a new shade instead of being replaced.

With a USB-C cable, the same kind your phone uses, and the cable is in the box. Some lamps can also sit on a charging station; their product page says so.

Some of them. The models rated IP44 or IP54 cope with splashing water and suit a covered terrace, a balcony or a garden table: the metal lamps and part of the wooden range. Most of the range is rated IP20 and made for indoors, and the rating is on every product page. Bring any lamp in during frost, because cold shortens the life of any battery.

Every table lamp here dims with a touch, from candlelight to a clear light for reading. That range is why one lamp works as a bedside lamp, on a living room side table or as a large table lamp on a console. Where a normal lamp would be in the way, there are the small table lamps.

A battery operated lamp runs on disposable batteries that you keep replacing, and its light weakens as they drain. A rechargeable table lamp has a built-in battery you top up, and it keeps a steady brightness until it is empty.

Yes, in your hand luggage. The lamps have a built-in lithium battery, and airlines allow those in the cabin but not in checked baggage.

For a stone base, the Rijks Collection. For wood, the Nordic Collection. For a printed porcelain shade, the Maera Collection, and for a shade of real alabaster, the Levora Collection. For metal and wood that can stand on a covered terrace, the Essential Collection.