Pallora Pendant Light | Minimal Scandinavian Elegance In Five Soft Muted Designer Colourways

Some of the best still life painting works in colours so soft they barely separate from each other, and that restraint is exactly what this Marlow Vane pendant borrows. The shape is minimal Scandinavian, and the colours are muted rather than bright, so the fitting adds a tone to a room without picking a fight with the walls or the furniture beneath it.

Five colours are offered and none of them shout. Yellow and pink are the warm pair and read soft rather than sweet. Red is deeper and more serious than a primary red would be. Green sits beautifully over oak, and black is the graphic option for a room that needs a firm line somewhere near the ceiling to hold everything else together.

Buy it now and hang it low enough to be seen properly, since a pendant this quiet is wasted at ceiling height. Over a dining table, leave roughly seventy centimetres above the surface. This is a hardwired fixture and should be installed by a qualified electrician to local electrical code, with the circuit isolated at the breaker before any of the work starts. Once the fitting is cool, dust the shade with a soft dry cloth rather than a household spray.

• Style: minimal Scandinavian pendant in muted designer colours
• Colours: yellow, red, black, green and pink
• Character: soft chalky tones rather than saturated brights
• Suits: dining tables, kitchen islands, bedsides and hallways
• Hanging: allow roughly 70 cm above a dining table surface
• Installation: hardwired, fit by a qualified electrician, isolate at the breaker