30” Charlotte Whitewashed Faux Bois Buffet Lamp

Faux bois is one of those decorative traditions that keeps coming back because it works — the trick of rendering a branch in another material, here cast in resin and finished in a chalky whitewash that settles into every knot and ridge. Charlotte stands thirty inches, slim enough to slip between a stack of books and a mirror, and the rattan shade is the part that makes it: open weave over a whitewashed trunk, warm light through a woven pattern. There is a dimmer built into the socket, which on a buffet lamp matters more than it does anywhere else, since these usually end up in dining rooms where you want the light down. Reads coastal in a blue-and-white room and reads English in a paneled one.

Shade: 9” x 11” x 9”H, rattan
Overall height: 30”