Table Lamp Table
Okay so I’m not sure what to label this category of furniture – but surely I’m not the only one who remembers the combo table and lamp from the 1970s – at that time I found them embarrassingly unattractive, the kind of stuff in your friends basement. But lately I have come across two beautiful incarnations of this previously frozen-in-time concept. The first piece I came across while I was in Seattle. I visited Velocity Art and Design in the South Lake Union district (which didn’t really exist 20 years ago when I lived there). This lamp table or table lamp, was actually named BOOKLAMP by the designers, Seyhan Ozdemir and Sefer Caglar of Autoban. Based in Istanbul, arrived on the seen a few years back. I remember first being introduced to their designs by a NY based showroom called Ray20. The line later became associated with De La Espada who now builds their designs in Portugal. The BookLamp that I saw at Velocity was in the darker walnut color. The piece is small at 22-1/2″w 15-3/4″l and 54-3/10″h. It is beautifully made and is so striking in its simplicity.
