Tandem - Modern Globe Floor Lamp for Reading

Forty five inches and eleven pounds, and it does not rock when you catch it with the edge of the chair. I tested that more than once in the first week, not on purpose.

The join where each globe meets its chrome ring is dead clean. No glue line, no gap, nothing to catch a fingernail on.

The warm light is the part I keep coming back to. It goes amber as the evening draws in and the whole end of the living room softens with it. I read under it most nights and my eyes are fine at eleven o'clock. I put a lower wattage E27 in and it is still plenty for a paperback. It has changed how late I stay in that chair, which was not something I thought a lamp would do.

switched off it looks like two glass balls floating in a chrome cage. thats a compliment. most floor lamps look like nothing at all during the day

I had been circling floor lamps for the better part of a year and every one of them was either a torchiere throwing the lot at the ceiling or a great fabric drum on a stick. This is neither. The globes land at about the height of my head when I am sitting down, which is where I wanted them and where nothing else seemed willing to put them. Assembly was three pieces and a thumbscrew, done before the kettle boiled. It has been beside the armchair since the start of April and I have not thought about it once since, which is the highest thing I know how to say about a piece of furniture.

Slim in a way the photographs undersell. The footprint is barely wider than the globes themselves.

The opal glass is even the whole way round, no bright spot, no seam where the halves meet. I went looking for one. A warm bulb suits it far better than the daylight one I tried first.

Eleven pounds sounds light for something this tall. The weight is all in the base disc, and it stays exactly where you put it.