A clean cone, 16 cm across the mouth and 13 cm deep, with no wood on the shade at all. The whole form is one piece of travertine and the cable runs straight into the apex, which is why it reads as a shape hanging in the air rather than as a fitting.
A cone spreads light at a fixed angle, wider than a drum and tighter than a bell. In practice that means a clean circle on the surface below with a definite edge to it, and very little going anywhere else.
Where it earns its place
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Over a dining table. The most conventional place for a cone and still the best. Hang it low and the table is lit and the room is not.
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Entrance halls. One centred, hung high. Simple enough that it does not compete with a period cornice or a panelled door.
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In pairs down a long room. Two cones at the same drop read as deliberate in a way that two of anything rounder does not.
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Black or beige. Worth knowing before you order: the black version has a black iron ceiling plate, the beige has a wooden one. It is the only piece in the range where the fixing changes with the finish.
Real stone, so no two are the same
A cone is turned from a solid block, so the banding compresses as the diameter narrows towards the apex. Every piece therefore has a different gradient running up it. The black stone shows its pores as pale specks against dark, and on a cone that texture is at its most visible because there is no wood anywhere to draw the eye away.
Hanging it
Two hundred centimetres of cable, cut to your drop on the day. Over a table, 75 cm from the surface to the rim is the usual answer, and because the mouth is only 16 cm across you can go lower than that without blocking a sightline. The ceiling plate is 12 cm across, iron on the black version and wood on the beige. Warm white E27 LED bulb included. Not dimmable, and it needs a qualified electrician.
