The best floor lamps: elegant designs for your home

Legendary lighting designer Ingo Maurer once said, “Design is a way of thinking and lighting is a way of feeling.” Due to their significant size and size, floor lamps have the power to transform a room, capture attention and create atmospheric islands of light and visual interest. They can serve as sculptural statement pieces that draw attention or as supporting elements that quietly enhance the overall ambience of a room. Our carefully curated selection of floor lamps includes designs from the 1930s to the present, united by a spirit of experimentation, tactile materiality and thoughtful proportions.

Meld floor lamps by Gather Glass and Emma Payne Ceramics

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Emma Payne worked with glassmaker Phoebe Stubbs of Gather Glass to create this modular series of ceramic lamps. Also available in table and cocktail sizes, the lamps are made from ceramic sections that can be stacked at different heights and configured with multiple lights. The sections are made of textured, ceramic-glazed stoneware, while the diffusers are made of hand-blown glass. “We developed the design using a series of collaborative sketches and material combinations,” explains Payne. “As designer-craftsmen, we worked in our separate studios and then met to show how our work had progressed and developed. “The meeting of two materials and two minds.”