Tom Delavan

Welcome to Style Detective, a series from T Magazine. Each month, we’ll investigate readers’ questions regarding the items and objects they can’t stop thinking about — and can’t track down. Subscribe here and click this link to submit your own questions. “I’m trying to identify a lamp that my parents gave me between 1980 and 1984, when we were living in Japan. Unfortunately, I have very little information about it.

In T’s column 1 Piece, 10 Budgets, we share 10 perfect versions of an item in a range of prices. This time, we’re looking at planters, those flat-bottomed, high-walled containers for growing flora that were present in ancient times and are still elemental design pieces today. Ranging from the ornamental to the minimal, the glazed ceramic to the faux rattan, here are the T design editor Tom Delavan’s favorites. Credit...Courtesy of the brand 1.

In T’s column 1 Piece, 10 Budgets, we share 10 versions of an item in a range of prices. This time, we’re looking at portable lamps, the kind that can be charged, unplugged and carried from room to room and, in some cases, outside. From fresh takes to classics that have recently gone cordless, here are the favorites of T’s design editor, Tom Delavan. Credit...Courtesy of the brand 1. Ikea, $20 This battery-powered lamp emits a rosy glow, and the top can be tilted to direct the light.