Handmade to order in BritainShips in 5–7 days

Urban Light Company

Handmade in Britain

Lights made one at a time.

Wall lights and pendants built from solid timber and real metal — turned, assembled and posted by one pair of hands. 52 combinations to choose from, and nothing you'll see in everybody else's hallway.

  • Handmade to order

    Assembled by hand in Britain

  • Solid timber

    Oak, beech or walnut — never veneer

  • Ships in 5–7 days

    Tracked, and packed to survive the post

  • 14 days to change your mind

    Even on a made-to-order light

Close detail of a back plate turned from solid walnut, showing the figure in the grain, and the copper collar where the swan neck arm meets it

What makes them ours

It starts with the wood.

Most lights sit on a pressed steel plate you’re meant not to look at. Ours start with a disc turned from solid timber — golden oak, pale beech or dark figured walnut — sanded and oiled so the grain carries on doing what grain does.

It’s the part everyone notices last and likes most, and it’s the reason two lights from the same batch are never quite twins.

How they’re made

Three things we won’t cut corners on.

Turned from solid timber

Not veneer, not a painted disc. Every back plate and ceiling rose is turned from solid oak, beech or walnut and finished so the grain still reads — which is why no two are quite the same.

Metal fittings, not plastic

Brass, copper, chrome, black and white, in their own finishes rather than sprayed to match. Pick the parts separately, and mix them if you want to.

Made to order, one at a time

Nothing sits in a warehouse. Your light gets built when you order it, by hand, in Britain — usually ready to ship inside a week.

Better in a room than on a screen.

One beside an armchair, a pair either side of the bed, or a run of them down a hallway. They’re deliberately plain, so they get on with the job rather than competing with the room.

Black swan neck wall light with a brass bulb holder on a solid walnut back plate, mounted on a plain wall with the bulb lit