Naturally Unique Veining

No two pieces of stone are ever the same

Alabaster is a natural stone, so every piece carries its own veining and subtle variation in color. The fixture you receive may therefore differ slightly from the images shown.

It Runs on the Same Cable as Everything Else You Own

No proprietary adapter, no electrician, no fixed socket. A USB cable and any plug, power bank or laptop port you already have.

One cable, and whatever you happen to have. Nothing about where it stands is decided by where a socket is.

Good to Know

A Shade That Curls Around Its Own Light

Hide the source and only the glow is left.

Every lampshade is solving the same problem: a bulb is too bright to look at, so something has to stand between it and your eye. The usual answer is to wrap the bulb in a cylinder and open both ends — which works, but leaves you a lit ring at the top, a lit ring at the bottom, and a bright spot visible the moment you sit lower than the shade. Most of the time you can see exactly where the light is coming from.

Nerida answers it differently. The stone curls in on itself — one edge sweeping up and over, rolling inward until it closes against its own body like a shell. The light sits inside the coil, and the coil has no opening pointed at you. From every angle you would sit at, there is nothing to look into. Only the glow escaping from the mouth of the curl, and the warmth travelling up through the stone.

Which is why it is lit so unevenly, and why that is deliberate. Where the spiral tightens the stone is thin and close to the source, so it burns bright and amber. Where it opens out, the stone thickens and the light thins to a pale glow at the rim. A shade lit evenly all over announces itself as a lamp. A shade lit unevenly reads as an object with light inside it — which is a very different thing to have on a bedside table.

And because it is quarried rather than moulded, every curl carries its own veining — faint and cloudy in one, stronger and more marked in the next. Switched off in the morning it is still worth looking at, which is more than a fabric shade ever manages.

Small — 7.1″ across and 13.4″ tall. Roughly the height of two coffee mugs stacked. Worth picturing properly before you order, because photographs of a lamp on its own give you no sense of scale.

That size is right for a bedside table, a console, a bookshelf or a hallway cabinet. It is not a room light and it will not light a living room. On a wide empty surface a single small piece can look adrift — which is why most people buy two.

Because it's meant to be. The light sits inside the coil, so where the spiral tightens the stone is thin and close to the source — bright and amber. Where the curl opens out, the stone is thicker and the glow fades to a soft pale at the rim.

A shade lit evenly all over looks like a lamp. A shade lit unevenly looks like an object with light inside it — which is a very different thing to have beside a bed.

Ask us before you order. The LED is built in, so there's no bulb to swap for a dimmable one afterwards — the decision has to be made at the time of order.

A dimmable version is available. Beside a bed most people eventually want the light lower, so it's worth deciding now rather than living without the option.

Two, if they're going either side of a bed or a mirror. At this size a single piece can look adrift on a wide surface, while a matching pair reads as deliberate — and symmetry is most of what makes a bedside arrangement look finished.

One is right on a hallway cabinet, a bookshelf or a desk corner, where it sits as a single accent rather than half of a pair.

Nothing you can see. Both the curled shade and the base are natural alabaster, so there's no metal stem and no visible hardware anywhere on the piece.

That matters more than it sounds. On most stone lamps there's a clear line where the shade stops and a metal fitting begins. Here the whole thing reads as one object rather than as a shade sitting on a fitting.

Because the stone is quarried, not moulded. The veining through your lamp will be its own — faint and cloudy on one piece, stronger and more marked on the next.

If you're buying a pair, expect the two to differ from each other as well. A pair that matched exactly would have to be resin.

A soft dry cloth. Keep water off it — alabaster is porous, absorbs it, and leaves a mark that won't buff out.

Dust settles in the mouth of the curl where a cloth can't reach easily, so a soft brush works better there. No sprays, no polish, nothing abrasive. Switch off and let it cool first.