Alba
Alba
For the hours Italians call il dolce far niente
This stone has spent two thousand years in Italian cathedrals, palaces and fountains. Tonight it holds a low, warm light over a table nobody wants to leave.
Stone — Calacatta Viola
Il viola di Toscana — Tuscany’s violet
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Dimensions
Dimensions
Height 24 cm / 9.5 in
Shade diameter 17.5 cm / 7 in
Base 8 × 13 cm / 3.14 × 5.12 in
Top piece 8 × 1 cm / 3.14 × 0.4 in
Light and power
Light and power
2.5 W at 2500 K, which is the colour of a candle rather than a bulb. Three levels. Twelve hours at full brightness, most of a week at the lowest. USB-C, cable included, and the cable is for charging and lives in a drawer.
Stone and materials
Stone and materials
Solid stone turned by hand, with a brushed collar and base ring and a shade of Italian linen.
The pattern in yours ends at the edge of the stone and exists nowhere else. It will not match the photographs, and it was never meant to.
Shipping and returns
Shipping and returns
Free shipping within the United States. Thirty days to live with it before you decide. If something fails through no fault of yours, we repair before we replace.
John Singer Sargent, Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara, 1911. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
La pietra decide
Every Alba is singular, and none of it our doing. The mountain in this painting has been worked since the Romans, and every block brought down from it carries a figure sealed in the rock long before anyone thought to light a room with stone. The saw opens it once. What it discloses has never been looked upon, and will not be met with again.
The house chooses the block. The mountain does the rest.
II. PIANO PIANO
It follows the evening
Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of Saint Peter's, Rome, c. 1754. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
The emperor's stone
In imperial Rome the finest coloured marbles came out of quarries the emperor administered himself. Purple porphyry was his, and no one else's.
Fifteen centuries later, Michelangelo was climbing into the Apuan Alps to choose his blocks himself rather than trust another man's eye.
IV. LA CASA
Two thousand years, same village
In Tuscany, a home is never just a place to live. It is where the day slows down. Where the table stays set long after dinner, where doors stay open to the evening air, where every room carries the memory of the people who lived in it.
We design for people who see their home as a reflection of how they want to live. Unhurried. Generous. Rooted.
Benvenuti a casa.
V. LE PAROLE
4.8 — 34 reviews
★★★★★
Heavier than expected, in the best way. The veining is nothing like the photographs and I prefer mine.
Claire M. — Brooklyn, NY★★★★★
It has ended up on the dinner table every night since it arrived.
David R. — Chicago, IL★★★★☆
Beautiful object, and the light is exactly right. I would have liked a slightly longer run time.
Anna L. — Los Angeles, CA★★★★★
Bought the travertine for the bedroom and ordered a second one for the office two weeks later.
Michael T. — Austin, TX★★★★★
The Calacatta Viola is extraordinary in person. Photographs do not do the veining justice.
Sophie B. — Boston, MA★★★★★
We take it out to the porch every evening. No cable to think about is the whole point.
James W. — Charleston, SC★★★★☆
Excellent build. The lowest dimming level is my favourite and it lasts for days at that setting.
Rachel K. — Seattle, WA★★★★★
I have had a lot of lamps. This is the first one people ask me about.
Daniel F. — Denver, CO★★★★★
The green marble is deeper and richer than I expected. It anchors the whole shelf.
Emily S. — Portland, OR★★★★★
Packaging was as considered as the lamp itself. Arrived in four days.
Thomas H. — Minneapolis, MN★★★★★
Bought it as a gift and immediately regretted not keeping it. Ordered a second.
Laura P. — Nashville, TN★★★★☆
Solid and beautifully finished. The brass collar has already started to warm in tone.
Nathan G. — Philadelphia, PA★★★★★
It moves between the kitchen island and the bedside constantly. Charge lasts a full week.
Peter A. — San Francisco, CA★★★★★
Quietly the best thing I have bought for the house this year.
Hannah D. — Providence, RI