Wire Table Lamp Ø40

The Wire Table Lamp Ø40 has a chrome-plated steel frame supporting a white hemispherical shade, with a small metal reflector directing light upward for soft ambient illumination. Its airy, sculptural design adds a subtle yet distinctive touch to any space.

The Wire collection belongs to the world of Verner Panton, the Danish designer who spent his career dissolving the boundary between furniture, lighting and architecture. Panton was fascinated by open geometric structures — wire grids, repeated circles, reflective metal — and used them to make objects that feel light, almost transparent, while still commanding attention. VERPAN, the Danish brand devoted to producing Panton's work in close cooperation with his estate, builds the Wire Table Lamp Ø40 to the exacting standards his designs demand: a precisely welded chrome frame, a crisp hemispherical diffuser and a hidden reflector that bounces the glow gently upward. Where many table lamps are solid volumes, this one is essentially drawn in the air — a sketch of a lamp that happens to be real.

At 40 centimetres across, this is the statement-scale member of the Wire family, and it rewards a little breathing room. Place it on a sideboard, a console behind a sofa or a generous bedside table where the open frame can cast its delicate shadow play across the wall. In compact city apartments — where a single well-chosen object often has to do the decorative work of three — its see-through structure is a genuine advantage: it reads as sculpture without visually filling the room. Pair it with warm wood, bouclé or linen textiles to soften the chrome, or lean into the modernist mood with glass and polished stone. Because the reflector pushes light upward, it works beautifully as an ambient layer in the evening, complementing rather than competing with task lighting.

If the Ø40 feels like the right design language but the wrong scale, the same wire geometry appears across our table lamps in smaller diameters, as well as in standing versions among our floor lamps — a simple way to repeat a motif through a room without it feeling staged. For practical guidance on layering ambient, task and accent light in tighter spaces, our guide to designer lighting for small apartments walks through placements that make rooms feel larger and calmer. However you stage it, the Wire Table Lamp Ø40 brings a piece of Panton's playful, rigorous imagination to everyday evenings — an authentic Danish design that earns its place year after year.

Light source: E14, 1 bulb, max 60 W. IP20, indoor. Bulb not included — we recommend an E14 LED.