Table Lamp Buying Guide Hong Kong: Bedside, Desk and Cordless Lamps Our Customers Choose Most

A table lamp is the easiest way to change how a room feels in the evening, and in a Hong Kong flat it often has to do several jobs on a small surface. This guide starts with what our customers actually bought over the past twelve months, then goes through the choice by use: bedside, desk, cordless and living room.

Most chosen in the past twelve months

Louis Poulsen Panthella 160 PortableCordless · Ø16 × H23.8 cmFrom HK$1,900Louis Poulsen PH 1/1 Piano, Limited Edition 2026TableFrom HK$12,700Louis Poulsen Panthella 250 PortableCordless · Ø25 × H33.5 cmFrom HK$3,500Rumee PortableCordless · H24.3 cmFrom HK$1,900Louis Poulsen PH 2/1 TableTable · H33.5 cmFrom HK$8,400Louis Poulsen PH 2/1 PortableCordless · H36 cmFrom HK$10,900Artemide Tolomeo Micro TableDesk · H37 to 73 cmFrom HK$2,900Louis Poulsen Panthella 320 TableTable · Ø32 × H43.8 cmFrom HK$7,000Artemide Melampo NightBedside · Ø23 × H40 cmFrom HK$3,200

Bedside lamps

Measure the bedside table first: many in Hong Kong are 40 to 50 cm wide, so a base under 25 cm leaves room for a phone and a glass. The shade should hide the bulb when you are lying down, and the light should fall on the page, not in your partner's eyes.

• Panthella 250 Portable, Ø25 × H33.5 cm, from HK$3,500: soft all-round light, no cable.
• Artemide Melampo Night, Ø23 × H40 cm, HK$3,200: the shade tilts to direct the light.
• Artemide Eclisse, 12 × H18 cm, from HK$2,000: turn the inner shell to go from full light to a sliver.
• Artemide Nessino, Ø32 × H22.3 cm, HK$2,700, and Artemide Dalù, H26 cm, HK$1,200: low, compact and colourful.

Desk lamps

For reading and screen work choose a lamp with an adjustable arm and head, and place it on the side opposite your writing hand so your hand does not shadow the page. The Tolomeo family is one lamp in three sizes:

Tolomeo Micro Table37 to 73 cmHK$2,900Tolomeo Mini Table54 to 108 cmHK$4,100Tolomeo Table64.5 to 129 cmHK$4,300

The Micro suits a desk up to about 120 cm wide; the Mini and the Table reach across larger desks. Other desk choices are the Louis Poulsen NJP Table from HK$5,200 and the AJ Table, H56 cm, from HK$10,200.

Louis Poulsen NJP TableAJ Table

Cordless lamps

A rechargeable lamp goes where there is no socket: the dining table, a bookshelf, the balcony, the bathroom shelf during a bath. The Panthella 160 Portable (Ø16 × H23.8 cm, 24 colours, from HK$1,900) is our most chosen lamp of any kind. The VL 45 Radiohus Portable is HK$5,000 and the PH 2/1 Portable is from HK$10,900.

Panthella 160 PortableVL 45 Radiohus PortablePH 2/1 Portable

Living room and sideboard lamps

On a sideboard or console a larger lamp reads as furniture. The Panthella 320 (Ø32 × H43.8 cm, HK$7,000) and Panthella 400 (Ø40 × H58 cm, HK$8,000) give a wide pool of light; the PH 3½-2½ Table (Ø33 × H45 cm, HK$13,900) is the classic three-shade glass lamp.

Panthella 320Panthella 400PH 3½-2½ Table

Further reading

• Louis Poulsen Panthella lamp guide
• Floor lamp buying guide