Cordless Mushroom Table Lamp, Rechargeable Touch Dimming LED, Champagne Gold

The short version

A small brushed gold lamp that carries its own power, so it does not have to live next to a plug. It stands 22 cm tall and the dome is 10 cm across, which is about the footprint of a coffee cup and saucer.

Put it on a restaurant table, a bedside table, a bathroom shelf or a desk. Move it when the room changes. There is no cable deciding where it goes.

What you get

The body is brushed metal in a champagne gold finish, not painted plastic. You can feel the difference when you pick it up, and it is the reason the lamp holds its place on a table instead of looking like a gadget someone left there.

The dome sits over the LED rather than in front of it, so what you see is the light on the table and not the bulb itself. Nobody sitting across from it gets a glare in the eye.

Three light colours, from a warm yellow through to a cooler white. The dimming is stepless, so you are not choosing between two fixed brightness settings. You set it where the room wants it and leave it.

Because it runs on its own battery, the places it works are the places a plug never reaches. The middle of a dining table. A shelf in a guest room. A bar counter. A stoep table on a warm night.

Worth knowing

This is an accent light, not a reading light. It puts a warm pool on the surface around it and lifts a corner of a room. If you want to read a book by it for an hour, you want something brighter.

It comes in champagne gold. Space silver and antique copper exist in the same shape, so ask if you would rather have one of those.

The metal shows fingerprints the way brushed metal always does. A dry cloth takes them off.

It is small on purpose. At 22 cm tall it sits below eye level on most tables, which is what makes the light comfortable rather than something you look into.

Specifications

• Finish: brushed champagne gold metal
• Height: 22 cm
• Dome diameter: 10 cm
• Light: LED, three colour settings
• Dimming: stepless
• Power: built-in rechargeable battery, cordless in use
• Control: touch
• Boxed size: 10 x 10 x 24 cm
• Also made in: space silver, antique copper

In the box

• One mushroom table lamp in champagne gold