Choosing the right rechargeable table lamp
A rechargeable table lamp answers a question most homes have: where do you put a light when there's no plug nearby? The middle of a long dining table, a kitchen island, the back of an open shelf, a windowsill or a reading chair stranded away from the wall. With the battery hidden inside, a rechargeable lamp sits wherever it's needed and moves on when the room changes, with no lead to tuck behind the furniture.
Our collection falls into two families. The Hanover is a cordless lamp made to look like a traditional one, with ribbed and fluted Regency-inspired detailing beneath a tapered shade. It comes in two heights, small at 46cm and tall at 62cm. Choose it where the lamp should read as part of the scheme, not simply as a light.
The second family is smaller and softer. Both designs stand 32cm tall on a brushed brass base, one with a shade of gathered linen and one handwoven from natural rattan, each with a scalloped edge that sends the light gently downwards. They're light enough to carry from room to room in one hand, and they bring texture to a surface rather than formality.
Whichever you choose, every design dims, so one lamp can glow brightly through supper and softly at the end of the evening.
Cordless lamps with nothing to hide
A cordless lamp is only worth having if it looks at home switched off. The Hanover is made from an iron and zinc alloy for strength and longevity, which gives it the weight to stand as steadily as a mains lamp. Its battery is concealed in the base, and its LED ring bulb sits on the underside of the shade, so nothing about it announces the missing cable. It gives 300 lumens of warm white light at 2700K, and its bulb, rated for 30,000 hours, is replaceable rather than sealed in.
The linen and rattan designs take their character from the materials. Gathered linen and handwoven rattan both diffuse the light, so the glow reads as soft texture rather than a bright point. Each has a removable magnetic bulb that dims at a touch and charges by USB, leaving the shade itself free of switches and sockets.
That freedom is the point. A cordless lamp gives you what our design director, Fred, calls 'the flexibility and freedom of lighting all corners of a room, inside and out.' These are lamps designed to meet that brief without looking like a compromise.
