Wall Lights & Sconces

Brass wall lights, from ornament to simpler forms

Brass is a common thread through our collection, rather than a single style. Decorated arms, candle-style lights and floral glass sit alongside opal globes, cylindrical shades and pared-back metal fittings. This breadth lets a wall lamp relate to the room through its material without requiring every detail to follow the same period.

Our Art Deco and Art Nouveau lighting includes geometric details, floral motifs and more elaborate classical decoration. A richly worked fitting can become a deliberate accent against a plain wall; in an interior already full of mouldings and patterned fabrics, a simpler lamp leaves those details more room. The contemporary collection offers another route through brass, glass and restrained forms, while our rustic and industrial lighting brings together curved brackets, metal shades and glass. These are choices about the amount and kind of decoration, rather than rules confining a lamp to a period home.

The shade changes the relationship with light

A shade's material matters alongside its shape. Within our wall-light range, translucent glass, fabric, ceramic and metal give the light different routes into the room:

• Opal, frosted and ribbed glass offer different degrees of screening and surface texture. A white globe and an open floral shade do not present the light source in the same way.
• Fabric shades, including linen and pleated versions, introduce a textile surface as well as an opening above or below. The shade becomes part of the room's furnishings, alongside curtains and upholstery.
• Metal and ceramic shades make the openings especially relevant: light passes through those openings rather than through the opaque material itself. Their orientation deserves as much attention as the finish.

How a fitting directs or reveals light matters before the choice of finish. A fixed globe, an adjustable shade and a fitting with upward and downward light answer different intentions, even when all three use brass.

Fixed light, adjustable arms and picture lighting

The adjustable designs in our range serve different purposes. A jointed arm can move the shade away from the wall; an adjustable spotlight changes its direction. Beside a chair or bed, that distinction affects where the lamp sits as well as where it points. An up-and-down fitting instead keeps the light directed along the wall, making the wall itself part of the composition.

For a painting or framed print, our brass picture lights provide a separate selection of horizontal shades, from plain cylinders to decorated versions. Their proportions and projection need to work with the frame, rather than being chosen as a general wall sconce.

A finish chosen with the form

Our work with brass includes polished, satin, darkened and coated finishes across the available models. The difference is more than colour: polished surfaces catch distinct reflections, while satin textures break them up. On broad, smooth matt surfaces, small tonal differences and finishing marks can be more noticeable than on a detailed fitting. Our finishes guide explains these surface characteristics, helping you relate the selected lamp to nearby metalwork without assuming that every finish is available on every model.