Black Obelisk Base Table Lamp with Brown Shade (OD-1031-02) by Moe's Home Collection
15.75"W x 15.75"D x 16.55"H
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Black Obelisk Base Table Lamp with Brown Shade (OD-1031-02) by Moe's Home Collection
Black Angular Obelisk Base Brown Shade Table Lamp | 17 Inch | Table Lamp
The base is where the lamp makes its argument. It tapers from a wide flat top down to a narrow point -- an obelisk in miniature, or a blade trimmed to fit a tabletop. The iron surface has a dry, textured finish that reads as almost mineral in daylight. The chocolate-brown coolie shade above repeats the flat geometry without mimicking the drama of the base.
At 16.5 inches tall, it carries more visual weight than its height suggests. The angular base holds the eye in a way a conventional cylinder doesn't. As a bedside lamp it introduces a dark, considered note; as a single piece on a console or entry table, it's one of the few table lamps that reads as a design object before it reads as a light source.
Because the base narrows to a small footprint, it's stable on a flat surface but doesn't suit uneven or soft ones. A solid table or shelf is the right setting. Don't overthink placement -- it's designed to stand alone.
- Dimensions: 15.75W x 15.75D x 16.55H inches
- Weight: 3.3 lbs
- Textured iron base with fabric shade
- Angular tapered obelisk base in matte black with dark brown coolie shade
15.75"W x 15.75"D x 16.55"H
Meet the Maker
Moe's Home Collection:Forty Years of Furniture With a Point of View
Some brands earn trust loudly. Moe's has never needed to. The evidence shows up in rooms, season after season, in pieces that end up feeling more considered than their owners quite anticipated. More grounded. More alive.
That doesn't happen by accident. It happens because someone decided, a long time ago, that material and craft were worth the extra conversation, and never really stopped having it.
A Design House, Not a Furniture Factory
The Pieces Feel Found - Not Simply Bought
The Origin
A Family That BuiltSomething From Nothing
Moe Samieian Sr. arrived in Canada with an engineering degree and almost nowhere to use it. So he sold rugs at road shows, worked on commission, and learned the retail floor through years of direct customer contact.
In 1986 he opened his first store in Vancouver. Walking the trade shows, he kept noticing the same thing: most furniture looked identical. So he started hunting for pieces with something to say. Antiques. Flea-market finds. Objects with texture and history. More stores followed, and in 1999 he moved decisively into wholesale.
His children Sara and Moe Jr. carried that instinct forward. Not what merely sells. What resonates. That distinction still drives every collection.
The materials earn their place. Wood warms the edges. Stone steadies the eye. Steel adds tension. Glass lets the composition breathe. A hand-worked surface keeps a modern room from feeling too resolved.
The goal was never perfection. It was presence.
Moe's Is Built for PeopleWho Notice the Difference
The Craft
Material First - Trend Second
Every collection is designed in-house, then built through a manufacturing network developed over decades. Vietnam, India, Italy, Poland, Canada, the USA. Not the lowest-cost option in any of those places. Long-term makers who've been held to the same standards long enough that the standards stopped needing to be explained.
The construction is what you'd expect from that kind of relationship. Solid hardwood frames. High-density foam. Hardware that doesn't announce itself by failing early. These are not selling points so much as baseline expectations that a lot of furniture quietly fails to meet.
The materials go further than that. Acacia grain that no engineered surface comes close to replicating. Stone that grounds a room both visually and physically, which are different things and both matter. Mixed metals chosen for tension rather than coordination. FSC-certified wood and responsible sourcing throughout, though the more honest argument for it shows up over time, in how the pieces age rather than what the spec sheet says.
- Moe's does not source furniture. It curates it.
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