A solid block of black travertine, hung corner forward from a turned walnut mount so you read three faces at once instead of a flat square. The inside is hollowed out and lit, which means the open lower corner glows warm while the outer faces stay dark and matt.
It is the most sculptural fitting in the range and the least like a light. Switched off it reads as an object on the ceiling. Switched on it turns into a lantern.
Where it earns its place
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Entrance halls. The first thing anyone sees when they come through the door, and it says more about the house than a standard flush fitting ever will.
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Above a stairwell turn. The angled geometry works from below and from the landing above, which is rare in a ceiling light.
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Rooms with dark joinery. Black stone and walnut settle straight into a room with stained floorboards or dark panelling.
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One is enough. Unlike the softer shapes in the range, this does not need a pair to make sense.
Real stone, so no two are the same
Black travertine is the most variable stone we cut. Some blocks come through nearly even, others carry rust and grey right through the pitting, and the cube shows all four faces so you see more of that variation than on a curved shade. Yours will not match the photographs exactly. The macro shows a single face at full size.
Fitting it
This one needs aiming as much as fixing. The cube hangs corner forward, and it only looks deliberate when a corner points down the length of the room, so tell whoever puts it up which way the hall or the landing runs. Solid stone is heavier than the fitting it replaces, so the ceiling point has to be sound rather than a tired rose. Gear sits inside the mount, the warm white LED bulb is supplied, and there is no dimmer.
