Sadie Table Lamp

A turned wooden stem swells and pinches like a row of tiny pillars.

The Sadie table lamp is by Oly, in turned hardwood. Turned wood lamps are shaped on a lathe, which allows a single piece to take on a whole stack of rounded forms. The tall stem narrows to a long neck, widens into a ball, and rests on a short cylinder above a flat round foot. A light, weathered finish shows the grain, and the wood has a limed, pale look. A tapered white drum shade tops the lamp. It is 20 inches long, 7 deep and 27.5 high.

A good deal of curve, with all of it turned by hand and eye.