A square block of travertine hung corner forward from a wood collar, so you read two faces and the lit underside at once. Everything in the range apart from this and the Blackwell is round, which is exactly why this one works in a house full of straight lines.
The block is hollowed out and lit from inside. The outer faces stay matt and pale while the open corner underneath glows warm, so the fitting looks solid from the doorway and generous from directly below.
Where it earns its place
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Entrance halls. A single cube over the mat says more than a round flush fitting, and it still clears the coat hooks.
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Squared joinery. Panelled doors, framed cabinetry, a chequerboard floor. The geometry agrees rather than fighting.
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Pairs down a corridor. Aligned on the same axis they read as deliberate, which is the whole trick in a long narrow hallway.
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Oak or walnut. Oak keeps the piece light and Scandinavian. Walnut gives it more weight and suits a darker floor.
Real stone, so no two are the same
A cube shows four flat faces, so you see more of the block than on a curved shade. Banding that runs diagonally across one face will run differently on the next, and no two cubes come out matching. Yours will not be an exact copy of the photographs. There is a macro in the gallery if you want to judge the pitting before you buy.
Fitting it
Like the Blackwell, this hangs corner forward, so one corner should point down the room rather than into a wall. Say it out loud when the fitting goes up, because it is the sort of thing that gets set by whichever way the wires happen to fall. If you are putting up a pair, they need to agree with each other as well as with the corridor. Twelve centimetres of solid stone wants a sound ceiling point. Warm white E27 LED bulb supplied, no dimmer.
