Industrial home office lamps are more than just short light fixtures made of metal.
Let’s take a peek at the variety we might discover when we ‘shop by style.’
If you are dedicated to a style, it might make sense to click the ‘shop by style’ option when searching for a perfect new home office lamp, but like most everything, the choices aren't always strictly pure to any one style.
Just as we are all a combination of many influences, it's hard to find that ‘purebred’ anything in our mega-combo-culture that surrounds and celebrates our ever-evolving lives.
It's also true about your lighting. There are sub-styles inside every categorized 'shop by style.'
Designers mostly play with a look, theme, and materials, and arrive at a shape and structure that meets the functional objectives as well. And through that process, there usually arises hints at a handful of styles.
I've been working on a ‘man cave bathroom’ and have obsessed over the industrial lighting fixtures available. It’s reminded me that there’s more to each light than just that one category when it falls in the industrial category of ‘shop by style.'
So while you are shopping, keep an open eye on the possibility that your ideal industrial desk lamp might just have influences of a mission style or even a farmhouse look.
Here are a few of my favorite industrial desk lamps that reveal other style influences:
1. Industrial Mid-century Modern
One of my favorite trends is the mid-century modern look. This vintage inspired brass finish desk lamp, the Cyan Silverbelle Arc, has that style’s streamlined forms with a simple arc arm with shade. More than just an industrial desk lamp, it also has a detailed base that gives it the flexibility to fit in a more traditional space.
2. Industrial Farmhouse
At first this pairing of words might not make sense. Most of the time the word ‘farmhouse’ makes our brains jump to barnwood, distressed furniture, charming white sinks, and little charming accents of vintage pieces. Farmhouse inspired lighting also celebrates the simpler forms, and stresses functionality. The turn-of-the-century lantern look of this Dimond farmhouse antique brass desk lamp gives it that farmhouse look.
3. Industrial Nautical
This desk lamp charms me with its nod to a little lighthouse. A truly charming industrial nautical look, the Hubbardton Forge Erlenmeyer desk lamp has a dark smoke finish with an exposed bulb in a glass tube.
4. Industrial Mechanical
For design geeks like me, industrial mechanical is the most authentic of the industrial styles. The idea of ‘industrial’ goes beyond just using metals in simple shapes and forms, this style celebrates the machine as authentically functional, and showcases the inner-workings of mechanized parts as pure unadorned simple beauty. For this John Richard Pulley desk lamp, it shows off one of my favorite simple machines, the pulley. While the light doesn’t need the pulley to work, the use of the pulley is a charming stunner.
5. Industrial Steampunk
It might be the most fun way to design with metal, the steampunk style allows designers to get creative with the shapes and colors of metal to create lighting and other design elements in truly unique ways. This cast metal lamp with a hand-painted finish is from the Gun Metal Collection.
When you're looking for new home office lamps, do you 'shop-by-style,'?