KNOW BEFORE
YOU PLUG IT IN.

CE marking and the EU Declaration of Conformity

Every electrical article on this site carries the CE mark. CE is not a quality badge and not a certification issued by anybody — it is the manufacturer’s own declaration that the product meets the applicable EU legislation, backed by a technical file and a signed EU Declaration of Conformity.

Every electrical article we sell complies with:

• Low Voltage Directive 2014/35/EU (LVD) — electrical safety for equipment between 50 and 1000 V AC. This is the one that covers insulation, earthing, temperature rise and mechanical protection of live parts.
• EMC Directive 2014/30/EU — electromagnetic compatibility. LED drivers switch at high frequency; this directive is why yours does not interfere with the radio.
• RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU — restriction of hazardous substances, including lead, mercury, cadmium and hexavalent chromium.
• Regulation (EU) 2019/2015 — energy labelling, where the article contains a light source. Fittings sold without a bulb carry no energy label of their own; the label belongs to whichever bulb you fit.

The guard behind that

An electrical article with no Declaration of Conformity reference on file is not offered for sale on this site. That rule is enforced in code rather than in a policy: the storefront reads the catalogue through a filter, and an article whose reference is empty never reaches a page. All 40 electrical articles in this catalogue have one.

Who is allowed to install what

This is the single most useful thing on this page, so it is stated on every product card, every product page and again in the basket.

13 of the 41 articles in this catalogue connect to fixed wiring. In Denmark, work on fixed electrical installations is regulated and must be carried out by an authorised electrician — autoriseret elinstallatør. This is a legal requirement under Danish rules on electrical installation work, and it is not something a competent DIYer is permitted to do for themselves.

The Light Plan asks whether you can change the wiring for exactly this reason. Answer no and every hard-wired article is removed from the result by name. Those articles are:

• Swing-Arm Wall Reading Light
• Wall Sconce Up-Down
• Picture Light
• Bathroom Wall Light
• Outdoor Wall Light
• Corridor Wall Light
• Pendant Small Ø20
• Pendant Medium Ø30
• Pendant Large Ø40
• Dining Pendant Linear 90 cm
• Cluster Pendant 3-Light
• Paper-Shade Pendant Ø45
• Kitchen Island Pendant

IP ratings — where a fitting is allowed to go

IP stands for Ingress Protection. The first digit is protection against solid objects, the second against water. Higher is more protected; neither digit is a quality score.

3 articles in this catalogue carry an IP rating. The other 37 do not, and every one of them displays a notice saying so in plain words: indoor use in dry locations only. That notice is rendered by the same code that renders the rating — an article without a rating cannot be published without the warning, and the warning cannot be dismissed or configured away.

Voltage and plugs

Orders to a 100–127 V market are blocked at checkout, before you can submit them. That is not us being awkward about export — it is that the article would not work and would not be safe, and selling it to you anyway would be selling you a problem.

Maximum wattage, and why it is a limit rather than a suggestion

Every fitting that takes a replaceable bulb states a maximum wattage. It is set by how much heat the fitting can dissipate without its own materials, its wiring or its socket overheating. Exceeding it is a fire risk.

• Modern LED bulbs draw so little power that hitting these limits is difficult — a 12 W limit will accept almost any LED bulb you can buy.
• The limits exist because halogen and incandescent bulbs still exist. A 60 W incandescent in a fitting rated for 12 W is genuinely dangerous.
• Paper and textile shades have lower limits than metal ones, and those limits are printed on the product page with the reason. The Paper-Shade Pendant is limited to 10 W and to LED bulbs only, with a minimum clearance between bulb and paper.

Integrated LEDs that cannot be replaced

Some articles have an LED module built in rather than a socket for a bulb. That is how touch dimming, colour tuning and very slim profiles are possible at these prices — and it means that when the module reaches end of life, the fitting has reached end of life with it.

We say so on every affected product page, along with the rated life in hours and the maintenance code that describes how it fades. L80B10 at 25 °C ambient, for example, means that at the rated hours at least 90% of units are still producing at least 80% of their original output. It is not a guarantee of a failure date; it is a statement of how the fade was measured.

Dimming

Three different things get called dimming, and they are not interchangeable:

• Built-in dimming — the control is part of the lamp. Touch dimming on the Bedside Lamp, the ring on the Reading Floor Lamp. Works in any socket, needs nothing in your wall, and must never be connected to a wall dimmer.
• Wall-dimmer dimming — the fitting or its bulb is dimmed by a dimmer in your installation. Works only if both are compatible.
• Not dimmable — putting one of these on a dimmer circuit produces flicker, buzz, or a shortened life.

Lithium cells

6 articles contain a lithium-ion cell. Every one states its capacity in watt-hours, its runtime and its charging port on the product page. All of them are well under the 100 Wh threshold that triggers the strictest transport rules, but they are still restricted goods in transport.

• Charge from a standard USB-C source. Do not use a damaged cable or a damaged unit.
• Do not charge or store an article at temperatures outside 0 °C to 40 °C, and do not leave one charging unattended on a flammable surface.
• A cell that has swollen, been crushed, or been submerged must not be charged again. Take it to a collection point — see WEEE and recycling.
• Some destinations cannot receive these articles on our courier contracts. The checkout checks the destination against the basket and blocks it before you pay rather than after.

WEEE

Every electrical article carries the crossed-out wheeled bin symbol. It must not go into household waste at end of life. How to return one, and what our obligations are, is on the WEEE and recycling page.

What the numbers on a product page mean

Two more diagrams, because they explain most of the confusion people arrive with.

What we do not claim

This is a deliberate limit and it is enforced in the build. A list of prohibited claims sits in the source, the build fails if any of them appears in a page, and that check runs before every deploy. It is the same mechanism that keeps a fitting without a Declaration of Conformity off the storefront.

We also do not claim that any fitting lights a whole room, that any bulb is compatible with every dimmer, or that any article is plug-in when it is not. Those are the three things people are most often told, and all three are how someone ends up with a lamp they cannot use.

If something is wrong

Stop using the article, switch off the circuit, and tell us. If a mains article has overheated, sparked, tripped a breaker or shows damage to its cord, do not reconnect it to test whether it does it again. Your two-year right to complain covers a fault that was present at delivery.