A half dome of black travertine sitting on top of an opal glass globe, like a cap on a head. Fifteen centimetres across, 18 tall, with a small wooden collar between the stone and the cable.
Half the globe is covered and half is not, which is the entire design decision. The stone kills the upward light and the exposed lower half glows evenly in every other direction, so you get the soft all round quality of a bare globe without the ceiling being washed out.
Where it earns its place
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Over a dining table. Glare free from any seat because the bright part sits below the line of the stone.
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Kitchen islands. Two or three in a row give continuous light rather than separate pools, which suits prep work better than a directional shade.
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In a room with a low or dark ceiling. Nothing goes upward, so nothing draws attention to it.
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Next to the Marsden saucer. Same black stone, same opal glass, different scale. They work as a pair in an open plan room.
Real stone, so no two are the same
A half dome shows the stone as a continuous curve with no edges to hide behind, so the pitting reads clearly across the whole cap. On black travertine those pits pick up light as pale flecks. Nothing is filled, sprayed or coated.
Hanging it
Two hundred centimetres of cable, trimmed on the day. Because the light source is the exposed glass below the stone, hang it slightly higher than a shaded pendant: 82 to 85 cm from a tabletop to the base of the globe. This one takes a G9 LED bulb rather than the E27 used on most of the range, and the bulb is in the box. The 12 cm wooden ceiling plate covers a standard rose. Not dimmable, and a qualified electrician should fit it.
