Legendary lighting designer Ingo Maurer as soon as mentioned, ‘Design is a mind-set, and lighting is a approach of feeling.’ By their substantial measurement and scale, ground lamps possess the ability to remodel a room, commanding consideration and creating atmospheric pockets of sunshine and visible curiosity. They will function sculptural assertion items that draw the attention or as supporting acts that quietly improve the general atmosphere of an area. Our fastidiously curated number of standing lamps options designs from the Nineteen Thirties to the current, united by experimental spirit, tactile materiality, and thoughtfully thought of proportions.
‘Meld’ ground lamps by Collect Glass and Emma Payne Ceramics
‘Meld’ ground lamps by Collect Glass and Emma Payne Ceramics
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Emma Payne labored with glassmaker Phoebe Stubbs of Collect Glass to create this modular sequence of ceramic lamps. Additionally accessible in desk and cocktail sizes, the lamps are fashioned of ceramic sections that may be stacked to varied heights and configured with a number of lights. The sections are made out of textural, ceramic-glazed stoneware whereas the diffusers are hand-blown glass. ‘We labored out the design via a sequence of collaborative sketches and materials mixtures,’ Payne explains. ‘As designer craftsmen, we might work in our separate studios after which meet to point out how our works had progressed and developed. The assembly of two supplies and two minds.’
From £3,100, emmalouisepayne.com
‘Monoscope’ ground lamp by Allied Maker
‘Monoscope’ ground lamp by Allied Maker
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Notable for its refined particulars and buttery tan leather-based shade that casts a subtle mild each upward and downward, the ‘Monoscope’ ground lamp by New York lighting model Allied Maker exudes a basic sophistication harking back to conventional libraries or classrooms. Its disc-shaped shade, crafted from two 18-inch diameter frosted glass panels and encased in comfortable tan leather-based, pairs seamlessly with an identical leather-wrapped stem, brass pull chain, and bronze patina metallic accents.
From $9,900, alliedmaker.com
‘Madra’ ground lamp by Alara Alkan Studio
‘Madra’ ground lamp by Alara Alkan Studio
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Turkish-American designer Alara Alkan describes her work as pushed by a deep curiosity for supplies and impressed by the transformative results of tides, wind, and daylight. Her ‘Madra’ lamp embodies this ethos, pairing an ethereal linen shade with a considerable, tapered white oak stem to create a harmonious stability of kind and materials. Designed throughout Alkan’s residency at New York design gallery Colony – an incubator programme nurturing rising design expertise – the lamp made its debut in June 2024.
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‘Cellu’ ground lamp by Simon Legald for Normann Copenhagen
‘Cellu’ ground lamp by Simon Legald for Normann Copenhagen
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Created by Danish designer Simon Legald for Normann Copenhagen, the ‘Cellu’ ground lamp combines an archetypal kind with shocking supplies – a shade made out of pleated PVC and a chunky column in powder-coated aluminium. The metal base supplies stability and an accent of color. ‘In my design, I strive to not add any pointless particulars,’ says Legald of his method. ‘I work with simplicity by highlighting the requirements as a substitute of hiding them. It offers the product a easy and sincere expression.’
£355, accessible via Heal’s
‘Roattino’ ground lamp by Eileen Grey for ClassiCon
‘Roattino’ ground lamp by Eileen Grey for ClassiCon in black
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Recalling a fowl elegantly perched on one leg, Eileen Grey’s sinuous ‘Roattino’ ground lamp was designed in 1931, its minimalist kind standing in daring defiance towards the ornate kinds of the period. Now produced by German maker ClassiCon, the S-shaped design has gained renewed recognition, that includes a swivelling cloth shade, a brand new dimming operate, and a recent white colourway.
£2,074 , accessible via Aram.co.uk
‘Superwire’ by Formafantasma for Flos
‘Superwire’ by Formafantasma for Flos
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Formafantasma’s ‘SuperWire’ lighting assortment for Flos was praised far and large by design devotees when it was launched at Milan Design Week 2024. Together with this three-legged ground lamp design, the ‘SuperWire’ lamps are composed of hexagonal modules encased in flat glass panels, all set inside a glossy aluminium framework. Inside every module, 12 slender LED strips, protected by spaghetti-sized borosilicate tubes, emit a heat, inviting glow. Formafantasma designed the sequence with sustainability in thoughts, permitting the glass panels to be simply eliminated for easy restore or substitute of the LEDs.
£4,154, accessible from November on flos.com
‘Cyclopedus’ sequence by Atelier Malak
‘Cyclopedus’ sequence by Atelier Malak
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Paris-based designer Malacau Lefebvre of Studio Malak strives to create items which are, in his phrases, ‘as expressive as potential’ and imbued with a way of ‘emotional cost’. As an illustration, his bent metal ‘Cyclopedus’ lighting assortment options ground lamps that, whereas resembling easy line drawings, carry a hanging anthropomorphic high quality – like figures curiously craning their necks for a greater view.
From €600, Atelier Malak
‘Uptown’ by Ferruccio Laviani for Foscarini
‘Uptown’ by Ferruccio Laviani for Foscarini
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Three slabs of colored glass in shades of yellow, purple and blue are stacked collectively to create Ferruccio Laviani’s ‘Uptown’ ground lamp for Foscarini. In a composition that recollects a New York skyscraper, the glass blocks overlap, giving rise to new vibrant hues that look alluring whether or not illuminated or not. Launched in 2019, Laviani says of the design: ‘The artwork deco and Memphis geometries, the a number of mixture prospects afforded by glass and the Nineteen Sixties-style glass slab equipment… the checklist of what impressed “Uptown” may go on without end. I wished to convey the intrinsic wealth of the fabric, its distinctive approach of conveying transparency and color.’
£3,846, accessible via Lamp Twist
‘Callimaco’ by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide
‘Callimaco’ by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide
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With its daring colors, unconventional kind and playful particulars, the ‘Callimaco’ ground lamp, designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1982, epitomises the spirit of the Memphis motion, which Sottsass helped to ascertain. The lamp’s design features a chrome-plated deal with, a glossy painted aluminium stem, and a painted metal cone-shaped diffuser, recalling the silhouette of a trumpet. A real piece of design historical past.
£1,415, accessible via Madeindesign.co.uk and Twentytwentyone.com
‘Dórica’ by Jordi Miralbell and Mariona Raventós for Santa & Cole
‘Dórica’ by Jordi Miralbell and Mariona Raventós for Santa & Cole
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Impressed by classical columns and named after the Doric order in structure, the ‘Dórica’ lamp was designed by Spanish designers Jordi Miralbell and Mariona Raventós for Santa & Cole in 1994. Its enduring enchantment lies within the considerate simplicity of its crafted particulars and mix of heat supplies – a cotton ribbon shade, a sturdy bronze construction, and a leather-based twine grip. Raventós as soon as mentioned, ‘Design is the artwork of creating the utilitarian right into a desired factor, into human heat, into one thing generated by man,’ a sentiment superbly embodied on this piece.
£1,578, accessible via Lamp Twist and SCP
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