Lamp
- Hand-thrown stoneware & hammered copper — real materials, built to last
- UL-listed wiring with US standard plug (Type B) — 24-hour tested
- Signed & numbered — made by 9 artisans in Litchfield, CT since 1984
Direct pricing: This lamp formerly retailed at $269 through interior designers and showrooms. Now available direct from our Litchfield workshop — no gallery markup.
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Loved by homeowners across America
Every lamp is shaped around the room it's going to live in.
We don't start with a lamp. We start with a room — the light it needs, the corner it's missing, the surface it'll sit on. That's why every piece is prototyped in real spaces before it ever goes into production.
Metal is cut, shaped, and powder-coated by hand. Wood accents are turned on a lathe and sanded smooth. Every shade is balanced and adjusted until the light falls exactly where it should — not just on, but right. A lamp takes two to four days from raw material to your doorstep. We make about forty a week. "A room doesn't need more light. It needs the right light."
Forty years of designing lamps people actually keep.
James Caldwell left his job as an industrial designer in 1984 and opened a small studio in Litchfield, Connecticut. He had one rule: every lamp had to work in a real room, not just a showroom.
For the next three decades, every Caldwell & Stone piece sold through interior designers and high-end retailers. The studio never advertised. Never needed to. Designers came to us with floor plans, and we built what the space called for — hotel lobbies, private residences, a few pieces that ended up in Architectural Digest.
In 2018, James's daughter Claire asked a simple question: "Why does a $200 lamp cost $200 when $80 of that is someone else's margin?" So we did something we'd never done. We opened the door.
From sketch to switch — what a week looks like.
Design & Prototyping
Every piece starts as a hand-drawn sketch. James and the team build a working prototype before anything goes into production — testing proportions, balance, and light output in real room conditions. Most designs take three or four tries.
Fabrication & Finishing
Metal is cut, shaped, and coated in-house. Wood components are turned from sustainably sourced hardwood and sanded by hand. Each shade is individually fitted — no two sit exactly the same, which is how you know it wasn't stamped out.
Assembly & Testing
UL-listed wiring is fitted and soldered. Every joint is checked. The lamp runs for 24 hours straight on the test bench. If it passes, it ships. If something's off — a wobble, a flicker, a shade that sits a degree wrong — it gets rebuilt.
863 Reviews
We redid our kitchen last year and the pendants were the last piece. My contractor said they look like the ones he installs in $2M homes. Three of them over the island and the light is warm without being yellow. Worth every penny.
The finish on this thing is gorgeous. It's heavier than I expected which honestly made me trust it more. Sits on my bookshelf and throws this perfect little pool of warm light. My husband keeps moving it to his office. We might need a second one.
My designer wanted $600 for a similar pendant cluster. Found Caldwell & Stone through an article and got a better set for less than half. Our electrician said the wiring quality was as good as anything he's seen. Double boxed, no damage.
Bought one for my mother's birthday. She called me the next day and said it completely changed her bedroom. Ordered a second for my guest room that same week. The quality is obvious the moment you take it out of the box.