Objects worth owning
A small collection of unusually well-made things, and why we'd spend our own money on them.
Latest№ 003Desk lamp
Anglepoise Type 75
Spring-balanced light, since 2004
The Anglepoise Type 75 is a desk lamp with spring-balanced arms and a replaceable bulb. Kenneth Grange gave it its present form in 2004.
Read why it's here From €223.20
The collection
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There has to be a reason
Plenty of things are fine. We only write about the ones with a real idea behind them: a clever mechanism, an unusual material, a decision somebody stuck to for decades.
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We tell you what's wrong with it
Nothing is perfect, and you should know the downsides before you spend money. Every object has a section on what is less good about it.
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We show where we got it
Every fact links to where it came from, and every price has the date we saw it. The opinions are our own.
The weekly letter
One email a week. A couple of good things.
What we found this week, why we like it, and what's wrong with it. That's the whole email.
Objects currently in the collection: Anglepoise Type 75 (Spring-balanced light, since 2004); Teenage Engineering TP–7 (A motorised reel for audio); Iittala Aalto Vase (A vase with wavy walls).