Alabaster is translucent, so a sconce made from it does not bounce light off the wall, it lets the light through the stone. At eye level a plain wall becomes a source of warmth rather than a surface catching glare.

Three stone sconces

The Alba Sconce glows through hand-layered alabaster petals on solid brass in brushed gold, 15 inches tall in small and medium. The Velina Sconce carries the same layered language onto the wall at a larger scale, and the Arabella Sconce is the travertine sibling, yellow stone with visible grain in place of softness. All three run warm white at 3000K, and every piece of stone carries its own veining.

Placement, height and warmth

Mount the center of a sconce 60 to 65 inches from the floor, roughly eye level, and space a pair 36 to 40 inches apart when they flank a bed, a mirror or artwork. Keep the fixture no wider than a third of the clear wall beside whatever it frames. All three run warm white at 3000K, and dimmed low the stone reads almost amber.

Where the stone belongs

Bedrooms, hallways, dining walls and entries take alabaster naturally, the rooms where light quality matters more than lumens. In a bathroom beside the mirror the glow is kinder than an overhead strip, though a sconce works better alongside task light than in place of it. Start with the Alba Collection for the petal language, or the wider alabaster collection for the same stone overhead.

Hang one where the evening starts, the hallway or the bedside.