Black Marble Base · Cast Brass Column · Pleated Silk Shade · Belle Époque
A neoclassical floor lamp in the late-19th-century Belle Époque vocabulary that defined Newport mansion and Gilded Age library lighting — a slim cast-brass column rises from a round black marble base, punctuated by chased acanthus collars at the foot, midpoint, and shade gallery. Cut-crystal pendants ring the upper gallery, and a tailored pleated silk drum shade caps the column with diffused warm light.
Drawn from the American Gilded Age and French Belle Époque library-lamp tradition. Suited to library and study interiors, primary-suite seating areas, formal sitting rooms, primary entry foyers, and luxury hotel suites in 4,000+ sq ft estates — for design-led clients drawn to the Federal, Beaux-Arts, and Hollywood Regency vocabulary in transitional and traditional interiors.
Materials & Craft
Solid Black Marble Base
Hand-cut natural black marble base — veining unique to every block, weighted for stability under the slim brass column.
Cast & Chased Brass Column
Sand-cast solid brass column with three chased acanthus collars — period-correct Belle Époque ornamental rhythm.
Crystal & Pleated Silk Shade
Cut-crystal pendants ring the upper gallery; tailored pleated silk drum shade diffuses warm downward wash.
Dimensions
Single Standard Size
Ø 16.5″ × H 68.9″
Ø 42 × H 175 cm — plus 59″ (150 cm) plug cord
Plug-in floor-standing — no hardwiring required. Plug type selected at checkout (US, UK, AU, EU).
Please Note — Natural Marble Variation
Hand-cut natural marble — every base is unique. Veining pattern, color depth, and minor mineral inclusions vary block to block; your lamp will not match the photos at the marble level.
Specify your plug type at order. US, UK, AU, or EU available — universal 110–240V wiring. Wrong-plug shipments require return.
Product Notes
| Form | Belle Époque floor lamp · slim cast-brass column on round black marble base · cut-crystal pendants at upper gallery · pleated silk drum shade |
| Material | Hand-cut natural black marble base · sand-cast and chased solid brass column · cut crystal · pleated silk fabric shade |
| Finish | Polished brass column with black marble base and white pleated silk shade (single standard finish) |
| Dimensions | Ø 16.5″ × H 68.9″ (Ø 42 × 175 cm) |
| Cord Length | 59″ (150 cm) plug cord exiting at base |
| Light Source | E26 / E27 medium-base socket — bulbs not included |
| Recommended Bulb | E26 / E27 LED, 2700K warm white, ≤ 60W incandescent equivalent · A19 or globe shape concealed by silk drum |
| Dimming | Compatible with TRIAC dimmer switches when paired with dimmable LED bulbs · Lutron-compatible |
| Voltage | AC 110–240V universal · plug type selected at checkout |
| Plug Options | US · UK · AU · EU — confirm at order |
| Mounting | Plug-in floor-standing · no hardwiring required |
| SKU | RDF-102113 |
| Best For | Library and study interiors · primary-suite seating areas · formal sitting rooms · primary entry foyers · luxury hotel suites and presidential suites · Federal, Beaux-Arts, Belle Époque, Hollywood Regency, and traditional interiors in 4,000+ sq ft estates |
| Trade & Project | Designer specification packets, trade pricing, and project-quantity coordination available — contact our trade desk |
Installation
- Plug-in installation. No hardwiring required — plug into a standard wall outlet matching your selected plug type.
- Two-person handling required. Solid marble base is heavy — un-crate carefully, lift the marble base separately if components are shipped disassembled.
- Place on a stable level surface. The round marble base requires level flooring; hardwood, tile, or low-pile carpet preferred.
- Cord routing. 59″ plug cord exits at the base — plan placement near a wall outlet or use a UL-listed extension cord matched to your region.
- Care: dust the brass and crystal with a soft dry microfiber cloth. For the marble, dust dry only — do not use water, vinegar, or stone cleaners; marble is porous and stains easily.
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FAQ
Where is this lamp meant to stand? +
It's a Belle Époque library-grade floor lamp at 68.9″ tall — best placed beside a primary-suite reading chair, in a library or study, in a formal sitting room next to a wing chair, or as the anchor of an entry-foyer console arrangement. The pleated silk drum directs warm light downward over a seating zone, making it well-suited as a reading-side lamp paired with separate ambient sources.
Will my piece match the photographs? +
The brass column, crystal pendants, and silk shade are made to consistent specification — your lamp will read identically in form. The natural black marble base, however, is hand-cut from individual blocks: veining patterns, exact color depth, and minor mineral inclusions differ between every base. The lamp you receive will sit within the same visual language as the photographs but will be visibly distinct at the marble level.
What bulb should I use? +
1 × E26 / E27 medium-base bulb, supplied by you. We recommend E26 / E27 LED at 2700K warm white, ≤ 60W incandescent-equivalent. The pleated silk drum conceals bulb shape, so A19 standard, globe, or vintage filament-style LEDs all work — choose for color quality (CRI 90+) for accurate library-and-study reading light.
Is it dimmable? Lutron-compatible? +
Yes — pair a dimmable LED bulb with a TRIAC wall dimmer (Lutron Caséta, Diva, and standard forward-phase dimmers all work). Use the lamp on a switched outlet for wall-control dimming. The lamp itself has no built-in dimmer.
Which plug should I choose? +
Select US, UK, AU, or EU at checkout to match your installation region. Internal wiring is universal 110–240V, so the same lamp works in any market once the correct plug is fitted. Confirm plug type before ordering — wrong-plug shipments require return.
How do I clean the marble, brass, and crystal? +
For the marble base: dust with a soft dry microfiber cloth only — do not use water, vinegar, or stone cleaners; marble is porous and will stain. For the brass column: dust dry; for fingerprints, a microfiber cloth lightly dampened with distilled water. Do not use ammonia, vinegar, or commercial brass polish — these dull the chased finish. For the crystal pendants: dust gently or wipe individually with a microfiber cloth dampened with distilled water; dry immediately. Do not soak.
- Unique shape design
- Made responsibly
- High quality material
- Tested for durability
CARE
CARE
- Dust with a soft, dry cloth.
- To protect finish, we do not recommend the use of household cleaners or abrasives.
- Do not exceed specified wattage.
SHIPPING & RETURN POLICY
SHIPPING & RETURN POLICY
Enjoy free shipping on all products. With Front Door Delivery, your item ships from our Distribution Center via UPS within 2–3 business days and arrives at your home in 4–6 weeks. Eligible items may be returned within 30 days of receipt. Made-to-order items are not eligible for return.
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The metal that holds
the light of years.
Brass is the alloy civilisations reach for when they want light to last. Door pulls polished by three generations. Naval instruments still readable a century after the ship was scrapped. Church candelabra that outlive the parish. Radilum's American Brass Collection is built on that same expectation — fixtures forged from H65 cartridge brass, finished by hand, sealed against time, and meant to be the lamp your grandchildren still recognise.
The alloy that refuses to age.
Brass is a brass-zinc alloy whose first known smelting dates to roughly 500 BCE in the eastern Mediterranean — Greek artisans alloying calamine ore with native brass to produce a metal that struck like gold but bent like a tool. By the Roman imperial period, brass was the material of coinage, military fittings, and the household lamps that lit late-republic Rome. Two and a half millennia later it remains, by an enormous margin, the most-used non-ferrous engineering alloy on the planet — and the lighting industry's quiet workhorse.
What makes brass uniquely fit for lighting is a coincidence of properties no single-element metal achieves. Brass gives it warm chromatic depth and the specific red-yellow that reads as luxurious rather than industrial. Zinc hardens the alloy enough to hold sharp turned profiles, threaded fittings, and cast detail without the fragility of pure brass or the dullness of pure brass castings. The blend produces a metal that is workable when you need it to be — and rigid for the next century.
Of the dozen brass grades available to manufacturers, Radilum specifies H65 cartridge brass — 65% brass, 35% zinc. The name comes from its original use: military shell casings, where the metal had to absorb the shock of firing without splitting. That same toughness, applied to a lamp arm, means the part stays dimensionally stable under decades of thermal cycling, hardware tightening, and bulb replacement. Lower-brass alloys (H62, H59) are cheaper but more brittle. We do not use them.
The Radilum brass collection is built on a simple recognition that the wider lighting industry has spent the last two decades forgetting: that the cost difference between a true brass fixture and a brass-plated zinc one is measurable in years of service, not dollars at checkout.
Four properties that change everything
about how a lamp ages.
Most fixture materials are chosen for what the lamp looks like in the showroom photograph. Brass is one of the very few materials that earns its place over the next thirty years. The differences come down to four physical and aesthetic properties.
01 Mass that reads as quality
Solid H65 brass has a density of 8.5 g/cm³ — denser than steel, denser than cast iron, more than three times the weight of zinc-die-cast. A brass sconce of comparable size to a brass-plated zinc one will weigh nearly four times as much. You feel the difference the moment you lift the box. It's not marketing — it's chemistry.
02 Living finish, not a coating
Brass-plated finishes are paint that happens to be metallic. They scratch, chip, and reveal cheaper alloy underneath. Solid brass is the finish — what you see is the metal itself, polished or patinated. A scratch on plated brass is a flaw; a scratch on solid brass is a wear mark that polishes back out. This is why brass instruments survive a century of touring while plated hardware ages out of fashion in five years.
03 Naturally antimicrobial
Brass alloys are oligodynamic — meaning their surface ions disrupt microbial cell membranes on contact. The EPA registers solid brass and bronze as antimicrobial surfaces. A brass switch plate, lamp pull, or door fitting is meaningfully cleaner than the stainless steel equivalent. For high-touch fixtures (bedside lamps, hallway sconces) this matters more than the brochures usually mention.
04 A spectrum the eye reads as warm
Brass reflects light selectively across the visible spectrum — absorbing slightly more blue and green, reflecting more red and yellow. The result is that any light source mounted in or near a brass fixture acquires a faint warm wash. We design the LED specification with this shift in mind: a 2700K bulb behind brass reads as roughly 2550K to the eye, the colour of late-afternoon window light.
Six finishes. Six different conversations
between metal and room.
A single block of H65 can be finished in a dozen ways — and the finish, more than any other variable, decides the personality of the fixture. The atelier maintains six standard finishes and adds custom patinas on request. Physical samples are sent before final order on every project of three fixtures or more.
- Reflectivity~85%
- SealantIncralac
- Best forFormal rooms
- Reflectivity~35%
- TextureLinear satin
- Best forMost projects
- ToneAmber to black
- VariationEach unique
- Best forVintage interiors
- Reflectivity~5%
- EdgesBrass glint
- Best forModern luxe
- SealantNone
- PatinaContinuous
- Best forHeritage homes
- PlatingSatin nickel
- BodySolid H65
- Best forCool palettes
Beyond the six standard finishes — verdigris greens, oil-rubbed bronze, mirror-polished rose, custom matched samples on request. Discuss specifics with your project lead.
Four stages, weeks of hand work,
one lamp.
Every Radilum brass fixture moves through four production stages. We document each stage with timestamped photography that ships to the client with the order — not because the photographs sell anything, but because they're the only way to prove that what we say happened actually happened.
CNC tooling from the designer's drawing.
A designer's sketch becomes a parametric 3D model, then a five-axis CNC tool path, then the steel mould. Every dimension held to ±0.1 mm. We tool every fixture in-house.
H65 brass, sand-cast or forged.
H65 ingots melted to 1080°C — sand-cast for sculptural pieces, precision-forged for structural arms. Cast pieces receive a stress-relief anneal cycle to prevent later cracking.
Four to six grits, by one technician.
A single technician carries each fixture through four to six polishing stages — 240 grit to felt-wheel buff. The technician's mark is etched on the fitting plate.
Multi-layer sealant, tested for 25 years.
Three coats of imported Incralac — the conservation-grade lacquer used by museums on bronze sculpture. Accelerated-aging tests project 25+ years tarnish-free.
Five archetypes — the working portfolio.
Most projects begin from one of five standard categories. Every category scales from intimate residential to full-room hospitality; every category accepts any of the six standard finishes; every category ships UL-listed for North America (CE/SAA available on request).
Three principles drawn from two centuries
of American interior design.
The Radilum American Brass Collection is shaped by three lineages — Federal-era neoclassical proportion, the early-20th-century Arts & Crafts movement, and the mid-century industrial vernacular. The result is a portfolio that reads as American not because it is decorated with eagles and stars, but because it carries the same restraint and structural honesty that those three traditions share.
Restraint & Proportion
From Federal-era cabinetry: symmetry, balance, restraint. Arms stepped at golden-ratio intervals. Canopies sized to match the column they descend from. Nothing is decorative for decoration's sake. The grandeur is in the proportion, not the ornament.
Structural Honesty
From the Arts & Crafts vocabulary: function expressed, never disguised. Joinery shows. Fasteners are visible and intentional. The arm of a sconce is shaped because it must support a bulb — and that shape is the design. Nothing pretends to be what it isn't.
Classic Shades
From mid-century industrial: opal milk glass, fluted glass, woven linen, perforated metal mesh. Each shade has a hundred-year vocabulary behind it. We pair the shade to the fixture's intended room — not the photographer's preference for what reads on social media.
From first email to final install — one specialist, six to twelve weeks.
Every Radilum brass project is led by one project specialist from the day the brief arrives through the day the fixture lights up. There is no handover between sales, design, production, and shipping. The same person who answers your first email follows the polishing photographs and tracks the freight forwarder.
Begin with a brief, or a finish sample.
Whether you need a single bedside sconce or a hundred matched fixtures for a hospitality build-out, the first step is the same — write to us. The project specialist who reads your email is the one you'll work with from brief to install. Every email gets a real reply within 24 hours.
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Size chart
| Size |
| area XS |
| Room XS |
| Size | DIA 2"-6" | DIA 6"-12" | DIA 12"-18" | DIA 20"-24" | DIA 24"-32" | DIA 32"-40" |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| area | 32-54 FT | 54-107 FT | 107-161 FT | 161-215 FT | 215-269 FT | 269-378 FT |
| Room | BATHROOM/AISLE | DINING ROOM | KITCHEN | BEDROOM | LIVING ROOM | COMMERCIAL INTERIOR |
* Sizes are American and expressed in inches.