Touchy subjects
-- Home Accents Today, 1/1/2008
Bright distracting colors are left in the shadows as subdued color palettes take the spotlight in the latest table lamp designs. Instead, the growing trend is grabbing attention though funky shapes and unique textures. Look for creative forms to be crafted from wood, metal, glass and ceramic, with a focus on raised surface detailing, which will leave even the most discriminating eye satisfied. — Lindsey Strader
Uttermost's Charlize table lamp displays a texture-rich base made of crackled ivory porcelain with dark antique silver accents topped with a silken ivory pleated shade ($297).
A two-tone metal shade with hammered texture serves as the focal point on Willow Green's square buffet lamp ($120).
Raising the glam quotient is the Ella buffet lamp made with an antique brushed brass base with stacked optic glass cubes and a bisque dupioni silk drum shade with glass prism accents from Vintage Verandah ($260).
Recycled aluminum made using a sand-cast method creates the sleek modern base of Palecek's table lamp, which features a black ostrich vinyl shade with raised detailing ($258).
An elegant table lamp from Cypress Point Home showcases a trio of wood candles hand-painted in ebony and green with bronze accents, completed with a double-lined drum shade and an oversize finial ($249).
Delicate crystal beading adorns the crystal base of Schonbek's Pirouette table lamp, crowned with a chic taupe shade.
A gold and brown-finished base made of aniline-stained, hand-turned wood creates the richly grained texture of Thumprints' Aphrodite lamp, complemented with a black silk blend shade and pull chains ($359).
Warm copper tones glow from a soft back shade on the Sheba lamp from The Merchant Source, accented with a hand-finished resin base with raised swirl detail ($96).
The Jessup Gray Iron lamp from Arteriors Home features a painted iron base and white fabric shade with gray floral designs ($399).
An umbrella-shaped art glass shade with a leaf motif tops an antique brass finished lamp from Dale Tiffany's Antiques Roadshow Collection ($400).
