Cozy Lighting Pick

Striped Glass Mushroom Table Lamp, Hand Blown

A small bedside lamp in the mid century mushroom shape, built as two pieces of hand blown glass: a rounded base and a wide domed shade whose rim overhangs it. The glass is striped in milky cream over warm amber, and because it is translucent rather than opaque the whole body lights up when the bulb is on, so the stripes read as bands of light instead of as a pattern on a dark object. It takes a warm white E12 bulb and switches on a button on the cord, so there is nothing to set up and no app involved. At this size it belongs on a nightstand, a shelf or the end of a console, where the job is to take the room off the ceiling light after dark rather than to light a whole room. It is for indoor use.

What you're getting

• Two pieces of hand blown glass, a rounded base and a wide domed shade
• Translucent striped glass in milky cream over warm amber lights up throughout
• Takes a warm white E12 bulb, switched by a button on the cord
• Sized for a nightstand, a shelf or the end of a console
• For indoor use

Why we picked it

The reason this shape keeps coming back is that the glass is translucent rather than opaque, so the lamp does not light a room from a dark object, it becomes the light. That is also why it belongs where you look directly at it, on a nightstand or a shelf, rather than out of eyeline. A button on the cord instead of an app is the right call for something whose whole job happens in the last minute before you go to sleep.