Floor and table lamps provide comfortable light at eye level and are decorative too

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT Fin Queen table light, £449, Original BTC; bedroom scheme by Henriette Von Stockhausen, with Directoire Bookcase wall light, £301.20, and Melon Vase table lamp, £644.40, both Vaughan, antique silk pattern shade by Susan Deliss, prices vary; Hanover cordless lamp in bronze with 12in lampshade in Warm White, £80, Neptune; Cranling articulated standing lamp, from £322, Pooky.