Add a Warm Glow With Rustic-Chic Lighting

From hand-forged iron to rawhide lacing, earthy materials bring rugged strength to lighting.

June 17, 2025

Drawing on prairie staples from kerosene lanterns and candles to stoneware jugs and horseshoes, lighting in rustic materials such as iron, wood, parchment, and leather have a primitive beauty reminiscent of the campfire’s glow.

Saddle Stitch 

Campanita Pendant by Casamidy, $900, casamidy.com

Bronze Age 

Playground Table Lamp by Simone Bodmer-Turner, rice upon request, emmascullygalley.com

LINKED IN

Large Left Bank Hanging Lantern with Parchment Paper by Formations, to the trade, formationsusa.com

BULL MARKET

Ferry Standing Lamp by Rose Tarlow, $5,625, rosetarlow.com

Glow Up 

Parchment Table Lamp 001 by Fern, $6,800, fair-design.com

Guiding Light 

Modernist Square Yoke Lantern by Bevolo , $850, bevolo.com

Steel Yourself

Lamp by Aaron Silverstein for Commune Design, $5,000, communedesign.shop

Leather Punch 

Series 01 Large Sconce by Adam Otlewski, $1,935, adamotlewski.com

Iron Clad 

Aix Floor Lamp by Hollywood at Home, $3,500, hollywoodathome.com

Branch Out

Twig Wall Sconce by Formations, to the trade, formationsusa.com

Smoke Show

Series 03 Table Lamp by Adam Otlewski, $3,545, adamotlewski.com

Heavy Metal

Maze Table Lamp by Formations, to the trade, formationsusa.com

Into the Woods

Round Wood Sconce by Blue Green Works, $850, bluegreenworks.com

Earthly Treasure

Stoneware Lamp by Peter Speliopoulos for Marked, $3,300, markedny.com

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