Ceramic Disk Wall Lamps, Set of 3

Three sunbursts in fired clay, this set of Scandinavian Modern wall sconces brings the warmth of a Danish 1960s pottery to the wall. Designed by Noomi Backhausen and Poul Brandborg and made by Søholm Stentøj on Bornholm, each disc pairs a speckled, sand-coloured stoneware rim with a glazed relief centre and a small brass cap. Hung together, they read as one composition, each with its own rings of colour.

Søholm grew out of Bornholm’s long tradition of working the island’s clay, and in the 1960s it turned that heritage towards modern living. Backhausen and Brandborg answered with lighting that is as much wall relief as lamp. The light hides behind the disc, so the ceramic becomes the face of the piece, incised with fine radiating lines and finished in glazes that settle into greys, ochres and soft sage greens. It is the earthy, tactile side of Scandinavian Modern, closer to the potter’s wheel than to the factory floor.

Switched on, each sconce throws a halo of warm light onto the wall behind it, soft beams fanning up and down while the disc glows at its edges. By day the matt, flecked rim and the glossier centre catch the light like three small suns. Hang them in a row along a hallway or above a low sideboard, or let them frame a bed, where their amber glow makes the evening feel slow and warm.