Floor lamps
Arched floor lamps from one hundred and seventy to two hundred and ten centimetres tall, corner LED lamps with RGB and remote control, designer lamps with a spherical shade, and models with a side table. Whether an arched lamp topples is decided not by its height but by the weight and width of the base against the overhang of the arm, which reaches one hundred and twenty centimetres. A lamp that shines at the ceiling gives as much light as the ceiling gives back, so under a dark ceiling a shade aimed downwards is better. A corner RGB lamp creates atmosphere, and for reading an arched floor lamp over the armchair or a lamp with a bendable neck suits better.
Floor lamps
A floor lamp needs no installing, you simply stand it on the floor and plug it in, so it can be moved somewhere else at any time. The category holds arched floor lamps from one hundred and seventy to two hundred and ten centimetres tall, corner LED lamps with coloured RGB light and with remote and voice control, designer lamps with a spherical or geometric shade, and models with a side table or a shelf. Some of the lamps adjust in height from seventy to one hundred and forty centimetres and have a bendable neck, others run off USB. The materials are mostly metal, marble in the base, acrylic and natural rope on the shade.
On an arched floor lamp, what decides whether it topples is not the height but the weight and width of the base against how far the arm reaches out to the side. The overhang usually runs ninety to one hundred and twenty centimetres, which is why arched models come with a base of marble or heavy metal. A heavy but narrow base is at the same time less stable than a lighter, wider one, and you can see the width in the photo, the weight you cannot. Portable luminaires are tested for stability on an inclined plane, and specifically with the light source fitted.
A floor lamp wants to stand in the middle of the room, but the socket is on the wall, and the supply cable is usually about a metre eighty. Before buying, it is worth measuring the distance from the socket to the spot where the lamp will go. On arched models it is a little trickier, because the base stands up to one hundred and twenty centimetres from the point the lamp shines on. Corner lamps powered over USB do not have this problem, but they do need a port or an adapter within reach.
A lamp that shines at the ceiling gives as much light as the ceiling gives back. A white ceiling returns around eighty per cent, a dark one considerably less. The walls count too, because moving from dark ones to light ones cuts the number of luminaires needed for the same illuminance by twenty to thirty per cent. Under a dark or very high ceiling, indirect light therefore does not work, and a lamp with the shade aimed downwards does more.
A corner RGB lamp creates coloured atmosphere, not light you can read by. The workplace standard asks for five hundred lux at the task position for reading and writing, and a diffuse band of colour on the wall does not put that much on the page. For reading, an arched floor lamp with a shade over the armchair suits better, or a lamp with a bendable neck that can be aimed at the book.
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