Quill - Mid Century Brass and Walnut Table Lamp

The brass disc has real mass. I expected something hollow and stamped and got a base that stays exactly where I set it down.

The walnut stem has a grain figure on one side that I keep turning towards the room. Small thing. It makes the lamp feel chosen rather than ordered.

The light is properly warm and it makes the brass and the walnut glow instead of glare. I keep it on the console by the stairs and it is the last thing I switch off. Colours hold up under it too. The rug and the book spines still look like themselves at night.

eighteen inches is exactly right for a bedside. the glass disc sits below eye level so you get the pool on the book and nothing in your face.

It has ended up on the hall console rather than the desk I first had in mind, and that is where it belongs. The disc is a shade over nine inches across, so it leaves the surface free for keys and post, and the low flat line suits a narrow hallway. The brass and the walnut are excellent close up. It is the thing people notice on the way in.

The floating disc is a lovely trick of engineering and my grandson has spent some time trying to work out how it is held up. Four and a half pounds of brass, so there is no danger of him tipping it over.

Clean joint where the walnut meets the brass, no glue squeeze out, no gap you can catch a fingernail in.

Looks like something I inherited. Best compliment I can give it.