Wider and shallower than the Alderley, so it covers more ceiling and pushes more light sideways. The travertine dish acts as a reflector rather than a shade, catching the output from the globe below and spreading it across the room instead of dropping it in a circle on the floor.
That makes it the one to pick when a room feels dark at the edges. In a living room where the corners never quite light up, this shape does more than a deeper shade of the same diameter.
Where it earns its place
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Living rooms. A 25 cm spread means the sofa and the far corner both get something, not just the coffee table.
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Kitchens. Bounces light off a pale ceiling, which is exactly what you want over a working space with wall units either side.
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Rooms with a low ceiling but plenty of floor. Wide and shallow suits that proportion far better than something tall and narrow.
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Where a pendant would be wrong. Same visual generosity, none of the drop.
Real stone, so no two are the same
A wide shallow dish shows the run of the block more clearly than a deep dome, so the banding across the face is very visible. That is the point of buying stone rather than a moulded lookalike, but it does mean yours will not be an exact match for the photographs. The macro in the gallery is shot life size.
Fitting it
Twenty-five centimetres of dish wants a bit of clear ceiling around it. Keep it away from a cornice, a beam or a sloping edge, because a wide rim that runs out of flat plaster on one side sits visibly crooked. The globe hangs below the dish too, so give it clearance from anything that opens underneath. The fixing is standard: onto the ceiling point, gear inside the collar, nothing to shorten. Warm white LED bulb supplied, no dimmer.
