A narrow bell in black travertine, 10 cm across the mouth and 17 cm tall, hung from a short walnut neck. Small, dark and vertical, which is an unusual combination in stone lighting and the reason this one gets picked.
Dark shades absorb rather than bounce, so almost all the output goes straight down. That makes this the piece to reach for when the room already has enough general light and what is missing is a defined pool in one specific spot.
Where it earns its place
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Beside a bed. One each side, dropped to just above the mattress line. Light on the page, none on your partner.
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A reading corner. Directly over the arm of a chair, close enough that it lights the book and nothing else.
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Above a bar or a narrow worktop. Small footprint, no glare from the side, and dark enough not to compete with the surface below.
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Rooms already full of pale stone. Black travertine works as punctuation where another cream fitting would disappear.
Real stone, so no two are the same
Black travertine has the same open pores as the pale stone, but light catches inside them instead of on the surface, so the texture reads as a scatter of pale specks across a dark ground. On a narrow bell the pattern wraps the curve and no two pieces flare the same way. Nothing here is painted or coated.
Hanging it
Two hundred centimetres of cable, trimmed on site. Because the whole point is a tight pool, hang it low: 55 to 65 cm above a bedside table, and lower over a bar than you would a pale shade, because you lose less light to spill and can afford to. The 12 cm wooden ceiling plate covers a standard rose. Warm white E27 LED bulb included. Not dimmable, and it needs a qualified electrician.
