List Price: $330.00
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The lamp was easy to assemble. It came in a cube box weighing about 25 pounds by Fedex.
If you want uber modern without wanting to feel like you're in a Starship Captain's living room or the 1980s, this lamp is perfect.
This was my first "post Ikea 20something life" lamp purchase. I wanted a grown-up bachelorette pad that is very minimalist with only a few pieces with interesting details, everyone else sparse, with only one or spots of femininity. This lamp definitely is for those who want a Bahaus-styled living room.
It reminds me of the polar opposite (new science) of Restoration Hardware's Focault's Gyroscope lamp (dawn of early science), which is a chandelier, around metal gyroscope rings, which is over $1,500 and totally out of my budget range. At $170ish-$300 (Amazon's third party vendors sells it in more reasonable ranges than places elsewhere charging $300 for it).
The shade is actually metallic silver when the lamp is off, which looks great in living rooms of both men and women, because it looks like a stainless steel lamp with a stainless steel lampshade. I was concerned it wouldn't be bright or how proportioned it would be because I couldn't find photos of the lamp in a room vignette. It's very bright. Once the lamp is on, the shade turns opaque and has a greyish tinge with 12-silvery orbs and 12-light bulbs---it looks like a central atom bound to a 12-molecule membered ring floating in an opaque grey box.
The lamp shade does get hot really quickly. I had it on for 3 minutes and it was super hot already. If this lamp lasts without issues for a while, I'll get another floor lamp or a table lamp,to place on a clear acrylic side coffee table (like the ghost chair) or a mirrored Parsons end table.
This is probably not a lamp for a home with lots of clumsy people (ie: people in roommates situations with roommates who bring random people over to "hang out") or children. The lampshade can dent or scratch easily, as it feels like a thicker sheet of metallic sheet or foil.
I'm very happy I discovered Adesso. The company seem to produce moderately priced, great modern lamps without looking too gaudy or so modern it looks like it came from the 1980s.
However, the replacement lightbulbs are very hard to find, even in NYC. Many don't sell incandescent G12 size bulbs---most G12 bulbs are opaque (beige) or clear.
Even Home Depot doesn't carry G12s size bulbs. Online sources can be unreliable when it comes to light bulbs though (broken during transit/shipment).
So make sure you have a reliable source of bulbs if you intend to get this.
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