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After decades out of production, the Timberline Floor Lamp by Mads Caprani is at last returning to the
homes of design lovers worldwide. First created by the Danish lighting designer in the 1970s, the Tim-
berline rapidly became Caprani’s flagship product – a playfully curving, swan-necked floor lamp that
both captures the Scandinavian design language of the 1970s and also transcends it, becoming one of
those rare pieces that can slip effortlessly into any space, of any style.
The lamp takes its name from Caprani’s fascination with the tree line – nature’s inherent limit on the
altitude at which trees can grow, the point of transition on the landscape between wood and rock. In
the lamp, he translated the notion of a natural boundary into an abrupt material juxtaposition between
wood and iron. The family story goes that the distinctive form of the lamp came from Caprani doodling
question marks at his desk as he tried to come up with a new light design, then having a flash of inspi-
ration – a lightbulb moment – and realizing that the shape of the question mark might be the answer
he was looking for.
