Floor and table reading lights

The HD Original puts the clarity of daylight on every page.

Small print is sharp, colours are true and you can read in comfort for longer.

A woman smiling over her book on a leather sofa, lit by an HD Original Floor Light in Heritage White
  • 99.4% keep theirs for the difference it makes.
  • Recommended by 500+ opticians.
  • Five-year warranty.

Make your favourite reading spot the best-lit place in your home.

The HD Original is the light for you if you go from small print to fine stitches to the whole newspaper, because one turn of the ring shapes the beam to each.

High Definition Original Floor Light

High Definition Original Floor Light

£349.99

For the armchair you always read in.

  • Up to 12x more light on your page*
  • Beam from a stitch to a broadsheet
  • Thumbwheel that remembers your brightness
  • Heavyweight or Lightweight base
  • Black or Heritage White
  • 90-day home trial
Choose the HD Original Floor
High Definition Original Table Light

High Definition Original Table Light

£299.99

For your desk, your bedside or the table beside your chair.

  • Up to 12x more light on your page*
  • Beam from a stitch to a broadsheet
  • Thumbwheel that remembers your brightness
  • Heavyweight or Lightweight base
  • Black or Heritage White
  • 90-day home trial
Choose the HD Original Table

*Compared with a traditional 60W bulb.

Not sure which light is right for you?

Answer five quick questions about what you love doing, and we will recommend the light that suits you.

Choose your light

What will you mainly use it for?

Shape the light around whatever you love doing.

A woman seeing the colours in her embroidery under a Serious light

Tell navy from black on the smallest stitch.

Colours look the way they do in daylight, so shades that look alike under an ordinary lamp are easy to tell apart.

A painter working on the detail of a landscape under a Serious light

Narrow the beam onto the finest brushstroke.

More of the light falls on a smaller area, so every detail stands out.

A woman enjoying a book in her armchair under a Serious light

Keep reading long after the daylight has gone.

Widen the beam across both pages, and the thumbwheel brings back your brightness every evening.

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A better light, not just a brighter bulb.

At 60 your eyes need about three times the light they did at 20, and the kind of light matters as much as the amount.

The HD Original gives you both: up to 12x more light on your page than a 60W bulb, from a purple chip that scores 98 out of 100 for colour accuracy where daylight scores 100, so your eyes no longer have to work to fill in what an ordinary bulb leaves out.

It has none of the invisible flicker most LEDs produce, so the light on your page stays steady however long you read.

Serious Lights have been chosen for operating theatres and the British Museum, where true colour and fine detail matter most.

See what better light does for you

Every part of the HD Original adapts to you, and stays exactly as you set it.

Bend the arm over your shoulder or down to your work with one hand, and it holds its place for good: it is guaranteed for life.

Roll the thumbwheel to the brightness your eyes like best, and the light remembers it, coming up gently to that level every evening.

If you nod off over your book, the snooze fades the light gradually and turns it off.

Choose your HD Original
A woman smiling over her book on her sofa by the light of an HD Original Floor Light
99.4%keep theirs for the difference it makes
Over a millionlights sold in 97 countries
500+opticians recommend them

Our most popular light, hand-built in Aylesbury.

More people choose the HD Original than any other Serious light. Every one is hand-built in our Aylesbury workshop, around fifty a day, by a team that has made nothing but lights for reading for over forty years.

The specialist components in a single HD Original cost more to make than many complete lamps sell for, and that is where the price goes.

It comes with a five-year warranty, and our team is on hand if you ever need advice or a repair.

Questions people ask before they choose.

Will I really notice the difference?

Most people notice it the first time they switch it on: the light lands where they are looking and the print is easier to make out.

How the home trial works
Which base should I choose?

The Heavyweight base stays planted while you move the arm, and the Lightweight is easier to carry between rooms. The Heavyweight Floor Light stands 152cm tall and weighs 6kg, and the Lightweight stands 144cm and weighs 3kg.

What finishes can I choose?

Black, which is matt black from head to base, or Heritage White, which has an off-white head and base with a nickel arm.

How is the HD Original different from the HD Essential?

The HD Essential has the same Daylight Wavelength Technology™, with a wide fixed beam and press-and-hold dimming. The HD Original gives you up to 12x more light on your page than a 60W bulb rather than 8x, a beam you can narrow or widen, the thumbwheel, the memory and the snooze, and a 90-day trial rather than 30.

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What does the HD Pro add?

The options of a battery, so you can use it away from a socket, and a remote handset, so you can dim it from your chair, in a modular design you can add to over the years.

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What if it does not make enough difference?

Try it at home for 90 days. If it is not right for you, we collect it free from any UK mainland address and refund you.

How the home trial works

See the difference at home for 90 days before you decide.

Use it for the reading, the crossword and the sewing you already love.

If it is not right for you, we collect it free from any UK mainland address and refund you.

Choose your HD Original
A man marking a walking route on a map by the light of an HD Original Table Light in Heritage White

Prefer to talk it through?

Tell us what you love doing and where you would use your light, and we will help you find the one that suits you.

0800 032 9366