Ceiling light fills a room; a lamp decides how the evening feels in it. Table and floor lamps are the layer designed to let the overheads go off entirely, chosen for the surface they stand on rather than the room as a whole.

Corded sculpture, portable light

Ora rounds natural alabaster over stainless steel, translucent enough at 15W to glow rather than shine. Arabella and the two rechargeable stone lamps are quarried yellow travertine, with banding and pitting unique to each piece. Pearl is the floor lamp, iron and frosted glass in gold, and at 45W the brightest thing here. Aris is the portable one, aluminum with touch dimming across three color settings.

Height, shade and warmth

Beside a sofa, 26 to 32 inches works with a standard side table, with a shade about two-thirds the width of the surface. A floor lamp reads best just behind or beside a seat, its shade bottom near eye level when seated. Warm white at 3000K is the standard here, which generally sits better below the ceiling than level with it.

Rooms, corners and pairings

A reading chair, a bedside, a hallway console with no ceiling fixture, the dark end of a living room: this is lamp territory. The wider modern table lamps range carries more corded designs, the cordless table lamps collection gathers every rechargeable, and the Arabella collection holds the travertine family.

Start from the surface it will stand on. Table height settles lamp height, and the material decides the rest. MOD LIGHTING runs the same metals here as overhead.