The clever one. A turned wood bowl sits inside the travertine dome, directly under the lamp, so you never see the light source from any angle in the room. All the output bounces off the wood and out through the ring of stone around it.
The result is genuinely indirect light with a warm cast picked up from the timber, and no bright point anywhere. If you have ever fitted a light and then found yourself avoiding looking at it, this is the design that solves that.
Where it earns its place
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Bedrooms. Nothing visible to glare, even lying flat and looking straight up.
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Studies and home offices. Indirect light means no reflection bouncing off a screen.
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Rooms used in the evening. The bounce off wood warms the light noticeably, which suits a room you sit in after dark.
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Oak or walnut. This is the one place in the range where the wood changes the colour of the light, not just the look of the fitting. Oak bounces brighter and cooler, walnut warmer and softer.
Real stone, so no two are the same
The dome is cut from natural travertine, and because the visible ring is the outer edge of the shade you see the banding at its widest here. Yours will not be an exact match for the photographs. There is a life size macro of the stone in the gallery.
Fitting it
This is the one fitting in the range where the lamp is invisible from every angle in the room, which removes a decision most people do not enjoy making: bulb shape is irrelevant here because nothing shows. The reflector bowl is set at the factory and should be left where it is, since its exact position under the lamp is what makes the light indirect. Onto the ceiling point, gear inside the collar. Warm white LED bulb supplied, no dimmer.
