Modern Touch Table Lamp – Metal Bedside Light in Six Colors

A metal bedside lamp with touch control, in eight finishes: Grey, Yellow, Red Brown, Black, Light Blue, White, Green and Pink. Red Brown and Light Blue are the two hardest to find elsewhere — most touch lamps stop at black, white and a metallic, while these sit closer to a painted furniture palette than to a hardware one.

Touch control works through the metal body itself, which is why the material here is not incidental. The whole lamp becomes the switch, so it can be operated by contact anywhere on its surface rather than by locating a small panel in the dark, and that is the specific advantage at a bedside. It also means there is no protruding switch to catch on a sleeve, a book or a bedside cable.

It belongs on a nightstand, and the width of the color range makes it one of the few bedside lamps that can be matched to a room rather than defaulting to a neutral. The paler finishes read as furniture; Black and Red Brown read as objects.

• Body: Metal
• Control: Touch
• Colors: Grey, Yellow, Red Brown, Black, Light Blue, White, Green, Pink
• Form: Table lamp