Brass Table Lamp

The arm swings out on a brass knuckle, ready to lean over a page.

This table lamp is made of brass and leather. Counterweighted task lamps of this kind trace their look to early industrial and drafting lamps, where a balanced arm let the light be set where it was needed. A slim leather-wrapped column rises from a round black base. At the top, a brass pivot carries a long horizontal arm, with a brass finial at one end and a conical leather shade at the other. Brass collars and joints punctuate the black throughout. It is 18.75 inches long and 18.25 high.

Built to look as though it has done serious paperwork.