Juniper™ Green Marble Table Lamp

Your bedside lamp is the last thing you see before you close your eyes, and most are wrong for the job. Some have a bare bulb under a shade that stops halfway, so a bright line shines straight into your eye from the pillow. Others give the cold blue-white light that tells your body it is still mid-afternoon. And the lamp itself is hollow: you reach for it half asleep, catch the shade, and it slides across the wood.

Juniper™ solves both through its materials, not through features. The globe is opal glass, so the white is fused into the thickness of the glass and not painted on the inside. Light passes through the wall of the globe and leaves as one even surface at low brightness, with no filament, no hot spot and nothing sharp for a tired eye to catch. From the pillow it looks like a soft moon, not a bulb.

The base is not a stand but a 10 cm dome of solid quarried marble. Nearly all of the lamp's weight is in the bottom third, under the centre of the globe, so it does what a bedside lamp has to do and stays put. A sleepy hand, a duvet pulled over the nightstand or a cat's shoulder will move the lamp without tipping it.

At 26 cm tall the whole lamp sits below eye level when you lie down, so the lit globe is never in your line of sight as a taller shade would be. There are three stones, all of them quiet. Carrara white blends into a cream or oak room. Verde green is the one to choose if the lamp is to be the main object on the nightstand; its veining is deep and clearly green in daylight. Nero black looks the heaviest of the three and sits well against pale plaster.

Dust the glass with a dry microfibre cloth. If it needs more, breathe on it and wipe, and never spray cleaner near the fitting. Marble is porous and reacts with acid, so keep vinegar, citrus cleaners and descalers well away from the base; a damp cloth followed by a dry buff is all it needs. Wipe spills off the stone at once and do not let them sit, and stand the lamp on a hard surface, not a folded cloth, so the felted underside stays flat. Let the bulb cool before lifting the globe. Do not carry the lamp by the glass; lift it by the marble, where the weight is.

A hand-blown opal glass globe shade, a thin turned collar ring in aged brass, and a base turned from one solid block of quarried marble in Carrara white, verde green or nero black, so the veining on your lamp is unique to it. The dimensions are the supplier's own measured figures: 26 cm tall overall, glass globe Ø 15 cm, marble base Ø 10 cm. Shipping weight is 5 kg, most of it stone. Corded and mains powered; bulb not included. The base is natural stone, so no two are the same in pattern or exact shade.