This travertine wall light brings together real stone and wood in a compact body 23 cm high, with a warm, closely controlled LED light. The head adjusts, so the beam goes where it is needed, from a bedside to a hallway or a reading chair. At 0.63 kg it is light on the wall and light on the fixings.

An adjustable travertine wall light for directed light

The argument for an adjustable head is freedom after the fact. You decide where the light goes once the fitting is up and the furniture has moved, which is not something a fixed shade allows. On this travertine wall light the head tilts on its mount, so the same fitting can wash a wall, pick out a picture, or drop onto an open book without lighting the person beside you. The shade is 10 cm in diameter, small enough that the piece slips into tight places: either side of a bed, at the end of a corridor, above a desk, in the dead space beside a chimney breast. A travertine wall light with a fixed head would lose all of that. Its projection of 15 cm is the figure that makes the adjustment usable, because the head has somewhere to swing without catching the plaster behind it. The body is real travertine set against wood, and the stone is the point: natural travertine carries open pores, veining and a shift of tone that no two pieces repeat, and a honed matt surface is what keeps it modern rather than dated. Under warm light the stone deepens and the wood follows it, which is why this travertine wall light is better treated as a quiet accent than as the main source in a room.

Specifications of the LED travertine wall light

The light source is an integrated 9.1 W LED delivering between 640 and 790 lumens in warm white, so there is no lamp to buy and no cap to check. That range from 9.1 W is a useful amount of light for a wall fitting, enough to read by at close range and not so much that it dominates a small room. On a travertine wall light the stone itself tempers the output, since the shade absorbs as much as it returns. The overall figures are 23 cm high, 15 cm deep, with a 10 cm diameter shade, and the fitting weighs 0.63 kg. That last number is worth dwelling on, because it is the one British listings almost never publish and the one an electrician reaches for first. Under 650 g means this travertine wall light goes onto plasterboard without drama, on ordinary hollow-wall fixings, and it is the reason the piece can be mounted either side of a bed in a room where the stud positions are not where you would like them. The supply is 220 to 240 V, matching an ordinary domestic circuit. Because the LED is integrated it is part of the fitting rather than a consumable, so plan the position on the basis that the colour temperature is fixed at warm white. With 23 cm of height and no drop below the body, the travertine wall light suits a 2.4 m ceiling without any of the clearance arithmetic a pendant demands.

How to aim your travertine wall light

Start from the job rather than the look. For reading in bed, mount the travertine wall light slightly above and behind the shoulder, then tilt the head down towards the page; the 15 cm projection gives you the angle, and the beam stays off your partner. Over a desk, aim across the work surface from the side so your hand does not cast a shadow onto the page. In a hallway, turn the head of the travertine wall light towards the wall and let the light graze it, which reveals the plaster and the pores of the stone at the same time. Avoid pointing the head straight out at eye level, since 640 to 790 lumens at close range is sharper than it sounds. A travertine wall light aimed at the ceiling instead will bounce a softer light back into the room. Before fitting, confirm your supply sits between 220 V and 240 V and choose fixings suited to the wall you have, noting that 0.63 kg is a modest load. A pair, one each side of a bed, is the usual answer and the one British buyers search for most.

Travertine, wood, a 9.1 W LED and an adjustable head: this travertine wall light gives precise warm light in a body that weighs well under a kilo. Fit one for a reading corner, or a pair for a bedroom, and let the stone do the rest.

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