Taller than a standard flush fitting, so the Marlow drops its light in a defined circle instead of washing the whole ceiling. That makes it the one to reach for over a worktop, a console table in the entrance hall, or a spot where you want the floor lit and the ceiling left quiet.
The stone is deep enough to carry real colour. Switched on, the light runs down the inside of the cylinder and picks up the pitting along the bottom edge, so you get a warm rim rather than a hard cut-off.
Where it earns its place
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Entrance halls. A pair either side of a runner gives you rhythm down a narrow corridor without cluttering the ceiling.
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Kitchens. Sits well over a run of oak units or a butler sink, where a pendant would be in the way.
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Low ceilings. Flush mounted with no drop, so it clears the top of a door and does not catch your eye when you walk under it.
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Wood you choose. Oak keeps it light and Scandinavian. Walnut pulls it darker and warmer, which suits a room with existing dark timber.
Real stone, so no two are the same
Each cylinder is cut from a natural travertine block. Banding, tone and the depth of the pitting change from one piece to the next, so the one that arrives will not be an exact copy of the photographs. The macro shot in the gallery shows the surface at full size so you can see what you are buying.
Fitting it
This is the tall one. Sixteen centimetres from the plaster to the rim, which reads deeper in a room than the drum shapes do, so hold a tape up before you order if it is going near a door or above a worktop where someone leans in. The fixing itself is ordinary: straight onto the ceiling point, gear inside the cylinder, nothing to shorten. Warm white LED bulb supplied, no dimmer. Have an electrician hang it.
