Finding great beauty in the accretion, Ms. Woldhek said, "It got us thinking: Why would you try to force a material to do what it doesn't want to?" The lamps come in pendant (shown), table and floor versions, and cost $2,000 to $15,000.
The foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, was right with his famous 1914 warning: it was a long while before the lamps came back on again: more than three decades of war, slumps and rule by brutal regimes ensued before it could be said that the crisis was over.
The Copeland Lamp comes in compact ($156) and standard ($166) sizes, and in black or silver.
The M-Kopa lamp comes from a company co-founded by Nick Hughes, the man who helped invent mobile-phone-based money transfer service M-Pesa for Vodaphone.
3. The Loft Floor Lamp comes in brass or polished nickel; $450 from888922-41084108 or wshome.com.com
3. The Square Tapered Floor Lamp comes in honey-colored wood or a painted white finish; $119 for the base.
The Monachella Floor Lamp comes in a brass or chrome finish, with an adjustable shade; $507 at Suite New York, 625 Madison Avenue (58th Street), (212) 421-3300 or suiteny.com.com
With each of these lamps comes the light of who used them.
Carefully reconnect any power cables to the new lamp if present and slide the new lamp into the compartment in the same orientation that the original lamp came out.
Overhead, a street lamp comes on, its yellow light a mere stain under the dimming sky.
