Alpho Handwoven Solar Garden Lantern

The pleasure of a woven lantern is what it does to the light rather than how much of it there is. The open weave of this Alpho lantern breaks the LED into a pattern that falls across paving, decking and the surrounding planting, so a single lamp lights a corner of the garden with texture instead of glare. Standing on a terrace or set at the turn of a path, it reads as furniture more than fitting.

The weave is a synthetic rattan chosen for the outdoors: it holds its colour through a season of sun and sheds rain without swelling or splitting, and the frame beneath it is powder coated against rust. A panel in the crown gathers charge through the day and the lantern lights itself at dusk, so there is nothing to switch, plug in or run a cable to.

Take the single lamp for a doorstep or a bistro table, or the pair to mark both sides of a step or a gate. Site them where the panel gets open sky, and expect shorter runtimes across midwinter. Bring them under cover through prolonged freezing weather and wipe the weave down at the start of each season.

• Handwoven synthetic rattan shade over a powder-coated frame
• Integrated solar panel with automatic dusk-to-dawn switching
• Casts a patterned shadow across paving and planting
• Available singly or as a matched pair
• Weather resistant; store under cover through hard frost
• Runtime varies with season and panel exposure