The Knoll B10
The Chandelier Lamp That Still Looks Like a Lamp

Most candelabra bulbs disappear the moment they are installed, tucked behind a shade or angled away from view. The Knoll B10 takes the opposite approach. Named for Florence Knoll Bassett, whose mid-century corporate and residential interiors treated every fixture as part of the composition rather than a hidden utility, this lamp is built to be seen, not just to work.

Why It’s Named the Knoll B10

Archipelago Lighting’s Décor nostⒶLGIC series names each lamp shape after a real mid-century design figure instead of a generic bulb code. A code like “B10” tells a specifier almost nothing about how the lamp is meant to be used or seen. The Knoll B10 solves that by attaching a name and a philosophy to the shape: Florence Knoll Bassett’s interiors were defined by furniture and fixtures that functioned as visible, deliberate parts of a room’s composition, not elements to be hidden. That same idea carries directly into how this lamp is designed and specified today.

This naming approach is not just a design flourish. On a submittal or a spec sheet, “The Knoll B10” is far easier to reference correctly across a project team than a shape code that could apply to dozens of visually different products from different manufacturers. The name does real work.

Built for Chandeliers and Sconces, Not Hidden Fixtures

The Knoll B10 uses a blunt-tip candelabra shape on an E12 base — the workhorse silhouette of decorative chandeliers and wall sconces. It is available in two glass finishes depending on the application: frosted for residential settings where a softer, diffused glow is preferred, and clear for settings where the filament itself becomes a visible design feature rather than something to obscure.

Output comes in two steps, both rated as 40W incandescent equivalents: 3.5W at 280 lumens and 4.5W at 350 lumens. Every SKU in the family is a single 2700K color temperature, and that is the detail that matters most for this product. A decorative chandelier might carry anywhere from 4 to 12 lamps in one fixture, all of them visible at once — so consistency from lamp to lamp is not a nicety, it is the whole job. Specifying one CCT across the family removes the most common source of mismatch in a cluster.

Where the Knoll B10 Gets Specified

Decorative chandeliers are the most common application, particularly fixtures specifying 4 to 12 lamps where visual consistency across every bulb matters. Wall sconces with exposed bases are a close second, since the candelabra shape and its finish options are designed to be visible rather than shielded.

In residential work that means dining room chandeliers, foyer pendants, and living-room sconce clusters. In hospitality, restaurant chandelier clusters, hotel lobby sconces, and bar or lounge fixtures — where the clear glass lets the filament read as part of the room’s ambiance rather than disappearing into a shade.

The lamp dims smoothly to 5%, which is what makes it workable in a dining room or a bar where the fixture has to carry the room from service to close. JA8-2022-E and T20 compliant variants are available where California code requires them, and the series is UL Listed and RoHS compliant with a 3-year / 25,000-hour warranty.

Part of a Larger Naming System

The Knoll B10 is one of seven lamps in the Décor nostⒶLGIC series, each named for a different mid-century design figure: the Saarinen A15, Eames A19, Knoll B10, Bauer CA10, Heath G16.5, Eichler G25 and Marshall S14.

The series is stocked across Archipelago Lighting’s 12 US warehouses, supporting sub-3-day shipment on order quantities from as few as 6 units up to 6,000 — which covers everything from a single residential fixture to a full hospitality rollout across multiple properties.