Bendra Table Lamp | Flexible Wooden Design Light For Desks, Bedsides and Warm Timber Sideboards

A lamp that bends is a lamp that gets used. The Marlow Vane Bendra lamp is built around a flexible timber form, so the head can be moved to put light exactly where it is wanted rather than where the base happens to sit. On a desk that means light on the page and not in your eyes, which is the entire job of a task lamp.

Working the flexibility into wood rather than metal is what makes it look like furniture rather than equipment. Most adjustable lamps read as office kit, all steel arms and visible hinges. This particular one keeps a warm timber surface and a soft rounded profile, so it can stand on a sideboard or a bedside table without dragging a workshop look into the room.

Buy it now if your desk lamp is functional and your bedside lamp is decorative and neither is both. Set it on a level, stable surface with the cable routed clear of the edge. Allow the lamp to cool before adjusting the position, and wipe the timber with a dry cloth only rather than any household spray or damp cloth, which can raise the grain and mark the timber permanently.

• Form: flexible wooden body that holds its adjusted position
• Use: task lighting that puts light on the page rather than in the eyes
• Look: warm timber rather than the steel and hinges of an office lamp
• Suits: desks, studies, bedsides, sideboards and reading chairs
• Placement: level stable surface, cable routed clear of the edge
• Care: allow to cool before adjusting, wipe the timber with a dry cloth