February 19, 2025

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The 5 Best Floor Lamps of 2025

The 5 Best Floor Lamps of 2025

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We really like the swivel head, mid-century–modern design of the Threshold Cantilever Floor Lamp, but this Target house-brand lamp lost points because the cantilever arm was difficult to adjust (we attributed this to the design of the small dial). At this price it would be fine as a bedside lamp, where adjustments would be few and far between.

If we were to pick a light solely for the purposes of reading, the ADS360 Crane LED Floor Lamp would rank near the top of our list. It’s compact and easily adjustable, with a four-way LED touch dimmer that puts out a pleasant light for reading underneath. It’s also even smaller than the George Kovacs—essentially an elevated task light rather than a full-fledged floor lamp.

Tripod

Our previous top pick, the Monique Tripod Floor Lamp (which has been renamed the Sarim), is easy to assemble, lightweight, and immune to tip-overs. That said, its mosquito-thin legs—the narrowest gauge we tested—look and feel flimsy. We still love the Monique’s smart cord-routing system, which hides the cord inside one of the legs to emerge from the bottom end, and it’s still a solid lamp if you can find it, though we’ve continued to notice stock issues in the past year.

There’s a lot we liked about the SH Lighting 31171F-SG Adjustable Tripod Floor Lamp when we finished assembling it: an adjustable height, an oversize drum shade, a sleek metal pull-string control, and a design directing the power cord through its center tubing for a cleaner in-room presence. What did it in during testing was a nudge—its top-heavy design paired with the low position of its three legs makes for an unsteady floor lamp that could be tipped over by a child, pet, or happily inebriated party guest.

You’ll have one less thing to purchase with the Brightech Emma LED Tripod Floor Lamp, because it ships with its own 60-watt equivalent LED bulb. It’s a perfectly fine tripod-style lamp that assembles with just a few twists of its adjoining legs and looks especially pleasing when placed in a corner. Our issue during testing was its wooden legs—they’re so lightweight, the lamp teetered and moved across the floor when lightly bumped by a basketball rolled toward it. The included lampshade is also an unusual, if not ingenious, flat-pack design that requires aligning two metal circular frames and snapping the paper and fabric shade across the top and bottom, all secured by Velcro at the edges. The fit isn’t perfect, but it’s acceptable if you turn the shade’s edges away from view.

We really liked the solid metal construction and ever-so-goth style of the Article Black Treo Metal Fabric Floor Lamp, an unflappable tip-resistant tripod lamp that’s easy to assemble (but a little bit of a pain to move around). Its wide-legged stance and large-diameter shade make this lamp best suited for larger rooms, where its all-black presence won’t dominate the space. In contrast to its size, the Treo is rated for only a modest 40-watt maximum output.

Noting its thousands of positive reviews online, we had high hopes for the Norine 61″ Tripod Floor Lamp. But our test unit was marred by a poorly threaded connector that prevented us from securing a tight fit between each leg section and the three-way switch assembly, resulting in a lamp that looked as though it had sprained its ankle and would topple over at the hint of a push.

The Lepower Wood Tripod Floor Lamp was a previous pick but in a recent round of testing we noticed a significant decline in quality when we ordered a new version. The clips where the shade attaches easily broke and the wood legs looked sloppily stained and felt flimsy.

Tree

The Aaron Aged Brass 3-Light Floor Lamp was our previous tree-style pick. It’s well made and stable, and it does the work of many lights for a modest price. We still recommend it if you’re on a budget. But its modest 40-watt output per lampshade ranks at the lower end of all the lamps we tested, and its mid-century–adjacent design looks and feels a little cheap in comparison to our top pick.

For all intents and purposes, the Brightech Jacob Floor Lamp and aforementioned Aaron 3-Light Floor Lamp seem to be brothers from different mothers. They’re the same size and nearly identical in style, and both feature an antique-brass finish indistinguishable from each other. The Jacob differentiates itself with the inclusion of a full three-year warranty and three budget LED bulbs in the box, so if you want a lamp in this particular style to unpack, assemble, and use immediately for $5 more, it’s a perfectly fine choice.

Arc

The CB2 Big Dipper Arc Brushed-Nickel Floor Lamp addresses nearly every shortcoming of the LumiSource Salon except for a similarly insufficient-sized metal base that didn’t instill a great deal of confidence. Still, if you prefer an arc lamp topped with a shade rather than a dome, the Big Dipper is taller and brighter (up to 150 watts), and features a higher tensile-arcing arm that doesn’t sway as dramatically as its counterpart.

Rod

Minimalists looking for a light source for their tightest corners should consider the Orren Ellis Tregenna 60″ LED Floor Lamp, a supremely thin, 60-inch-tall rod light that practically disappears from view when turned off. The lamp is marred only by an ungainly and cheap-quality dimmer box, which is a pain to adjust and looks particularly mismatched alongside the lamp’s otherwise sleek modern-chrome design.

This article was edited by Daniela Gorny and Christine Ryan.

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