I’m having a fascination with wooden lighting after seeing this Tom Rossau lamp in the flesh. I had to stroke it. You don’t really get that urge from the picture, but trust me, if you see it for real you’ll be leaning in before you know it.

It got me started on a bit of wooden light cruising and I found these, by Porky Hefer from Animal Farm. Oh that red flex…

This laser cut plywood lamp by Barend Hemmes…

And this rustic number by Klara Sumova from Mint.

All of which is really just triggering my love of the wood-on-wood look that I reserve strictly for viewing pleasure only – this house is not the place for it. I think it might be about a repressed need for a cabin somewhere remote. Here are some beautiful all-wood interiors if you too are that way inclined. As shot by the always wonderful James Merrell…

And equally brilliant Ngoc Minh Ngo – something I’ve had as a tear sheet in my house file for ooooh, years. And has just reminded me that I once had a pressing need for a bench at the end of my bed.

Sigh.