A touch of the unexpected is often welcome in the bedroom.
If you're looking for a functional and charming spacesaving bedside light, UK design firm Black + Blum's Climbing Light is a fun option. Much smaller than a regular lamp, it's rigged with a silver-topped bulb head that focuses light downward, right onto your reading material.
The Climbing Light is also very easy to hang: the left "hand" hooks over a single screw and you're done.
We wish the cord did something other than dangle, but at least a dangling cord can be rationalized as part of the design in this case. (It's the climber's rope!)
neat.
one of the things i hate about apartment living is not being able to drill holes and hardwire wall lamps, thus always having to deal with a cord running down the wall.
but in this case it does almost act as part of the design element.
if you don't like dangling cords, put a little of white "TAC Adhesive Mounting Putty" behind the switch and place it where you most like it. I do the same for cords running along the walls, it stays in place and comes off whenever you wish so!