Chinese Contemporary Lamp & Shade

A lamp base laid in dark and honey-colored tiles, like a brickwork wall in horn.

This contemporary lamp and shade is from China, in horn, wood and parchment. Horn can be cut thin and laid in pieces to make a mosaic, a technique used on furniture and decorative objects in many places. The base here is a slim rectangular block covered in small horn tiles, running from near black through smoky brown to pale amber. A thin black stem rises from the top. A tall rectangular parchment shade, trimmed in black along the edges, sits above it. It is 15 inches wide, 9.5 deep and 26 high.

Handsome from every angle, and a little bit patchwork.