INVERSE WHITE PEDESTAL TABLE LAMP

INVERSE WHITE PEDESTAL TABLE LAMP

White rice stone rising 35 inches in an inverted pedestal form, grounded by a black marble foot that stops the eye at the base with a quiet material surprise. The Inverse white pedestal table lamp, designed by David Frisch for Uttermost, earns its name through its silhouette — a form that widens as it rises, inverting the tapered conventions of traditional pedestal lamp design into something distinctly contemporary. Rice stone construction gives the white finish a natural surface variation that manufactured materials cannot replicate, with the white finish sitting over the stone in a way that allows its inherent texture to remain visible rather than obscuring it. The black marble foot introduces material contrast at the lamp’s base — cool, veined stone against warm white rice stone — in a detail that is small in scale and significant in effect. A white fabric round hardback drum shade completes the composition with clean, uninterrupted neutrality.

Elegant Design Details

The inverse pedestal silhouette is the design gesture that distinguishes this lamp from every conventionally proportioned alternative. Where standard pedestal lamps taper upward toward a narrow neck, this form inverts that logic — the body widens as it ascends, creating a top-heavy visual tension that the black marble foot resolves by anchoring the composition with contrasting weight and material density at the base. The white rice stone finish carries the natural surface variation inherent to stone construction, reading as subtly textured in raking light and cleanly white under direct illumination. Black marble at the foot introduces a material boundary between the lamp and the surface it rests on, elevating the rice stone body visually and preventing the lamp’s white finish from dissolving into lighter tabletop surfaces. The white fabric round hardback drum shade maintains the lamp’s monochromatic upper composition, its structured hardback construction keeping the shade’s circular profile precise and consistent.

Soft, Ambient Illumination

The white fabric round hardback drum shade diffuses light evenly in all directions, producing a warm, consistent ambient glow appropriate for modern living rooms, bedrooms, and entryways where the lamp’s considerable 35-inch height positions the light source well above the surrounding surface arrangement. Hardback drum shades maintain their circular form under heat and use more reliably than softback alternatives, ensuring the shade’s clean profile holds over time. The lamp accepts up to a 150-watt E26 standard-medium base bulb, providing meaningful output capacity for a shade of this size and a lamp of this stature. The 3-way socket switch allows brightness to be adjusted across three output levels, giving the lamp flexibility to serve as both a functional ambient light source and a lower-output atmospheric accent depending on the time of day and the room’s other light sources.

Size & Functional Features

At 35 inches tall overall, this is among the tallest table lamp formats in the contemporary category — a stature that suits large console tables, wide sideboards, and living room end tables in rooms with higher ceilings where a more compact lamp would simply fail to register at the right visual height. The round base measures just 4.5 inches wide, a remarkably contained footprint for a lamp of this height — a dimension made possible by the black marble foot’s density providing stability that a wider but lighter base would require additional width to achieve. The white fabric drum shade spans 13 inches wide and 10 inches high, a proportion that keeps the shade visually subordinate to the lamp’s dramatic inverse pedestal body without appearing undersized against the lamp’s 35-inch stature. At 12.1 pounds, the rice stone and marble construction provides the physical grounding this lamp’s height demands, and the 5.5-foot cord suits most standard side table and console placements.