About
rich soil, warm room
Loam is the dark, crumbly soil that holds water without drowning anything. It is the ground good things grow out of. That seemed like the right name.
how it started
With one bad ceiling light. We were renting a flat with a single bare fixture in the middle of every room, and every evening at about nine the place turned from home into a waiting area.
The fix cost eleven pounds: a second-hand mushroom lamp from a car boot sale, put on the floor in the corner. Same room, same furniture, completely different building. That was the whole education.
So we make lamps. Only lamps. Not because the rest of the room does not matter, but because light is the part that changes everything else for free — and because a shop that does one thing has nowhere to hide.
Eight lamps.
No ninth thing.
Glass is blown in runs of a few hundred, walnut is turned to order, and every lamp is wired and burn-tested by hand before it ships. When something sells out we do not rush the next run. We have also turned down every request for a cool-white bulb, and we intend to keep doing that.
See the lamps
care
Lamps last decades if you are a little gentle with them.
- Glass
Cool completely, then wipe with a damp cloth. No solvents — they haze hand-blown glass permanently.
- Rattan
Dust with a dry brush. Keep out of direct afternoon sun or the weave goes brittle.
- Brass
It will patina, and it is meant to. Polish only if you want it bright again.
- Walnut
Wipe with a damp cloth. Oil once a year, more if the room runs dry.
- Bulbs
Replace with 2700K, 5 W or less, dimmable. A cool bulb undoes the whole lamp.
- Cords
Never carry a lamp by the cord. Nine out of ten failures we see start there.
contact
Real people, slow replies, usually within two days.
- Email
hello@loam.example
- Returns
Thirty nights, no explanation needed.
- Wholesale
stockists@loam.example
- Studio
Open by appointment, Thursdays.
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