Table Lamp Depicting Egyptian Tablet

Hieroglyphs, repurposed to help you read in bed.

This table lamp depicting an Egyptian tablet is contemporary, made of sandstone with a linen shade. Hieroglyphic inscriptions were cut into stone to make words last, and designers still borrow their columns of signs for the sense of permanence they bring to a room. The rough-edged slab is carved with rows of birds, cartouches and a small star, standing on a black plinth. A slim brass stem rises to a wide rectangular shade in natural linen. Thirty-one inches high and 20 long.

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