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Smaller Wick S Glows With Romanticism and Modernist Design

09.18.23 | By
Smaller Wick S Glows With Romanticism and Modernist Design

Regardless of the technology – incandescent, fluorescent, CFL, LED – the romanticism associated with the warm glow of candlelight endures. The flickering flame harkens back to a slower time when everyday illumination was not measured in lumens, but in the slow, steady drip of wax. Seattle and Amsterdam-based design studio Graypants tapped into that warm association in the form of the Wick rechargeable LED table lamp, evoking the classic candleholder as an elegant modernist light source to light up the dinner table, bedside, or an evening get-together. And now there’s a smaller sibling – the Wick S – to complement the original.

Three LED tipped candleholder shaped portable lights on a marble countertop – from left to right – brass, graphite and black. Each light tip is on a low light setting.

The follow-up to the original portable and rechargeable table lamp is simple to remember, simply adding an “S” to its moniker to denote its smaller size.

LED tipped Wick candleholder shaped portable light set on top of a oval stone platter next to a small ceramic green coffee cup with Chemex coffee vessel in the background.

Two black Wick LED tipped candleholder shaped portable lights set on top of a wood table with two small ceramic cups and a taller black vessel to the left.

The Wick S is slightly shorter, measuring 6.5 inches in height compared to the Wick’s 10.2 inches stature, operating well as a companion piece to its original taller sibling or solo.

Two black Wick LED tipped candleholder shaped portable lights set on top of a round wood table with two small ceramic cups and a taller black vessel to the left.

Two brass Wick LED tipped candleholder shaped portable lights set on top of a wood table with a flower arrangement and small ceramic cup to the left.

The Wick’s candlelight glow can last anywhere between 12.5 to 150 hours on a single charge, depending upon which of the four brightness settings is set to illuminate the room.

One graphite Wick LED tipped candleholder shaped portable light with one ceramic cup and a dark coffee or tea mug to the right.

Like the original, it operates with a simple tap of its ring at the base to cycle through its 1 watt range of dim, bright to brighter, to brightest glow.

Two graphite Wick LED tipped candleholder shaped portable lights set on top of a wood table with two small ceramic cups and a houseplant in the background.

All three colors of the Wick S echargeable light in brass, silver and black. Shaped like a candle holder and tipped with a white 1 watt LED with a circular finger holder.

The Wick S lamp is available for preorder for $139 in brass, graphite, and black and shipping this fall.

Gregory Han is a Senior Editor at Design Milk. A Los Angeles native with a profound love and curiosity for design, hiking, tide pools, and road trips, a selection of his adventures and musings can be found at gregoryhan.com.