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.

Buying a Pair?

Select the size marked (*2) — two together come at a better price than buying them separately.

Good to Know

Two Stones That Came to Rest Overlapping

Not arranged. Just where they landed.

Pick up two pebbles from a riverbed and set them down. They will not line up. One will lie across the other at whatever angle it happened to fall, and the shape they make together will be asymmetric, unrepeatable, and somehow more convincing than anything you could have arranged deliberately. That accident is the whole design.

Solveig is two panels of alabaster, each cut as a soft irregular shape, set at an angle to one another and overlapping where they meet. Neither is symmetrical. Neither is a complete form on its own. A single metal bar crosses the join and holds them together — the only straight line in the piece, and the only thing that admits this was made rather than found.

What the overlap does to the light is the reason it exists. Where the upper panel laps the lower one, a narrow line of light escapes along the seam — the one hard edge of brightness on an otherwise soft object. Everything else spills out around the panels and washes the wall behind, so the sconce reads as a lit thing hovering slightly off the surface rather than a lamp fixed to it. The wall does half the work.

And because both panels are cut from quarried stone, the two halves of your sconce will not match each other — different veining, one usually a shade warmer than the other when lit. Which returns the piece to where it started: two stones that happened to end up together, and no other pair quite like them.

No — and it isn't meant to be. This sconce spreads light rather than aiming it. The stone glows, light washes the wall behind, and the room softens. What you don't get is a beam pointed at a book.

So it's for atmosphere: a hallway you pass through, a landing, the wall beside a bed. If you also want to read in bed, pair it with a table lamp or a directional reading light. Asking one soft sconce to do both jobs is how people end up disappointed with it.

No. The LED is built into the fixture, so there's nothing to buy and nothing to replace — but there's also no bulb to swap for a dimmable one later. Fitting a dimmer switch won't work and can shorten the driver's life.

There is a way around it. Put the sconces on their own switch rather than sharing a circuit with the ceiling light. Then "sconces only" becomes your low setting in the evening — which is how most people use a fixture like this anyway.

Measure to the centre of the fixture, not to the mounting plate — that's the mistake behind most sconces hung too high.

Beside a bed: 36–40″ above the mattress. Beside a mirror: 60–66″ from the floor, one either side, 36–40″ apart. Along a hallway: 60–66″ from the floor, 8–10 ft between fixtures. Up a stairwell: 60–66″ above each tread, so the line climbs with the stairs.

More than you'd think. Light escapes around the panels and washes the surface behind, which is half of what makes this piece work — it's why the sconce looks like it's floating slightly off the wall rather than stuck to it.

A pale, smooth wall returns that light and the halo appears in full. A dark wall absorbs it, and heavy texture breaks it up. The sconce still glows either way, but on a dark wall the effect is quieter — worth knowing before you pick the spot.

Because they're cut from real quarried stone, not moulded from resin. Each panel has its own veining, and one is usually a shade warmer than the other when lit.

If you buy a pair for either side of a bed, that difference shows between the two fixtures as well. That's what real stone does — a set that matched perfectly would have to be plastic.

Two, in most cases. At 7.5″ wide this is a modest fixture — about the size of a hardback book — and a single sconce on a wide wall looks lost.

It works hardest in pairs: either side of a bed, either side of a mirror, or repeated along a corridor. A single one is right in a genuinely small space — a powder room, a narrow entry, a stair landing.

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

No sprays, no polish, nothing abrasive. The metal edge and bar can take a barely damp cloth followed by a dry one. Switch off and let it cool first. Once or twice a year is plenty.

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