Our first 2017 installment in our Extreme/Low division; the Kafe desk lamp from Metropolis Outfitters, clearly impressed by an English conventional, the Distinctive BTC Hector lamp. Proper right here’s a comparability.
Above: The 17-inch-tall Kafe Desk Lamp has a powder-coated metallic shade and is obtainable in ivory (confirmed) or blue (as is the Distinctive BTC mannequin); it costs $49 from Metropolis Outfitters. The draw again? The metallic (not porcelain) shade has two rows of inelegant perforated cutouts and the lamp lacks the solidity of the distinctive. It’s moreover “imported,” although UO doesn’t specify the nation the place it’s made.
Above: Designed by Distinctive BTC founder Peter Bowles and made in Stoke-on-Trent, England, the 22-inch-high bone china Hector Medium Dome Desk Lamp is $359 from YLighting and comes with a braided cotton wire. The shade is made out of hand-finished slipcast translucent bone china, as is the underside; the stem is satin-chromed brass.
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