torchier

If the socket is partly surrounded inside the lamp, as on a torchier, first unscrew the switch if it extends through the lamp body.

To make a ceiling appear higher, illuminate it with a torchier (a type of floor lamp) or other uplights that spread diffused light evenly across the surface.

A translucent torchier glows in the far left corner, spreading its diffused light on the ceiling and on the wall, while also lighting the art to its left.

Lamps On the Web (www.lampsontheweb.com) even sold floorchiere lamps, worth it for the name alone, defined as a floor lamp that gives the illumination of a full torchier.

You can do so from the comfort of your own home, but you may have to face certain hardships, like getting by with only one refrigerator and junking the halogen torchier.

This explains how, after her death in 1991, my husband inherited a tall, ornate torchier with a heavy round bowl of a shade, which opens upward to direct light toward the ceiling.

I phoned Ms. Maxwell to ask if, in addition to the reproduction shades on her site, she knew of a source for original vintage torchier shades that might fit Nana's lamp.

"Many modern sconces have halogen bulbs and throw off as much light as a standing torchier for general ambient illumination," said Stephen Bernstein, a lighting consultant with Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design in New York.