The Stair table lamp has a solid, stepped steel base with a spherical light fixed on top, which is designed to create "curiosity and awaken the child within," according to Oblure.

B efore I had kids, I never realized just how many things in my home were dangerous. From sharp corners to windows on the second story, I babyproofed it all. Stairs, of course, are a more obvious ...

By then, the lamplighters took the more formal title of “public lighting maintenance engineers” with staff also looking after almost 150,000 electric stair lamps.

There were, as it turned out, still lamplighters who attended nightly to the 12,664 gas lights on stairs, as well as the 145,434 electric stair lamps.

The lamplighters - or leeries - were a familiar sight on the streets of Glasgow as they dashed from lamp to lamp before dusk with their long ladders and lighting poles.