Lumenorth Anvil Industrial Pendant Light

Anvil is a Nordic industrial pendant light: heavy-looking metal and honest glass, with none of the fussiness that usually creeps into kitchen lighting once someone decides it should also be decorative. The proportions are solid rather than delicate. It looks like it was made to be used. That is the whole appeal of the style when it is done without irony.

The glass shade softens the bulb into a broad, even glow rather than a hard beam, which matters a great deal over a kitchen island where somebody is standing under the light for long stretches at a time. It is bright enough to work by and warm enough to eat under, and it does not throw the sharp shadows that a bare metal shade does across a worktop. That combination is rarer than it sounds, and it is the reason this shape keeps being specified for kitchens rather than only for warehouses.

Gold reflects a little of the light back and warms the whole fitting; black keeps it graphic and recedes against a dark ceiling. Hang one over a sink or a small table, or run three along an island with the pools of light just overlapping along the worktop.

• Style: Nordic industrial, solid proportions
• Material: metal body with an honest glass shade
• Light: broad and even, no hard shadows on a worktop
• Finishes: gold or black
• Comfortable to stand and work under for long stretches
• Best for: kitchen islands, dining tables, entryways and bedrooms
• Ships worldwide with tracking, delivered in 3-14 business days