Fjordlume Pendant Light | Scandinavian LED Hanging Lamp For Dining Rooms, Bars and Kitchens

Scandinavian pendant design is built around a single question: how do you light a table in a country where it is dark for most of the working day. The answer they arrived at is a shade that sits low, contains the source, and puts warm light on the surface without spilling it into the room.

That is why so much Nordic lighting looks similar and why it works. The form is not a style choice, it is the shape that solves the problem. Integrated LED lets the fitting stay slim while doing it, since there is no bulb to house inside the shade. Hang it so the bottom of the shade sits above seated eye level, since a pendant you look into across a table defeats the shape entirely. Size it to the table rather than the room, because a small pendant over a long table always looks lost.

Hang it over a dining table, a kitchen island, or a breakfast bar, lower than instinct suggests. A pendant hung at ceiling height lights the room; hung low it lights the table and leaves the room softer, which is the entire point. Electrical installation should be carried out by a qualified electrician. Buy it now.

• Shade contains the source and directs light down
• Warm light on the table without spilling into the room
• Form solves a lighting problem rather than following a style
• Integrated LED keeps the fitting slim
• Hang lower than instinct suggests
• Installation by a qualified electrician