The Ecate table lamp, designed by Toni Cordero for Artemide around 1990, turns chainmail into something unexpectedly elegant. A fluid brass and steel mesh shade drapes over a slender conical stem, anchored by a weighty, rock-like cast bronze base. Part medieval armour, part Italian postmodernism, it’s lighting with a wonderfully strange point of view.

Moderate signs of surface wear, consistent with age.