Have you seen this table lamp? If you eat in New York, you will

A sleek newcomer, the Pina Pro, is popping up on many outdoor tables around town - and sometimes disappearing, as diners fall in love with it. her soft glow.< /p>
She is tall and slender, with an elegant conical hat. She frequents the tables of the most coveted restaurants in New York. It lights up a room.
Maybe you've seen it? She is a lamp. The Pina Pro wireless lamp from the Italian design company Zafferano, to be exact. And she's everywhere.
In the evening, waiters at the elegant Italian restaurant Altro Paradiso in SoHo place Pina Pros on the tables outside, where the 14 tiny LED lights each cast a soft, romantic glow over the duck stew pappardelle. A rather cozy glow, perhaps, to make you forget the rat that has just passed by, or the noise of the Ducati dealership opposite.
Chez le Hollandais , a few blocks away, at the corner of Prince and Sullivan streets, the black hue of the lamp matches the columns surrounding the outdoor tables. A street away, several Pina Pros line the plant-filled dining room of French-Indonesian restaurant Wayan. The list of devotees of the lamp continues to grow, mainly in Manhattan: Little Owl, Market Table, Cote, Mercer Kitchen, Vestry, Lodi, Cipriani. Brooklyn restaurants with Pina Pros include Evelina and Aurora.
"They are the most perfect model for an outdoor lamp for a restaurant," said said Lauren Miller, COO of Mattos Hospitality, which runs Altro Paradiso. "They're totally user-friendly, they last a really long time, they don't blow out," like candles do. At $149 a lamp, they're not cheap, but they're rechargeable.
ImageOwners and customers say they love that the lamp (pictured here at Little Owl) is compact and rechargeable, with a warm glow. Credit... Emon Hassan for The New York Times
At Altro Paradiso, a few lamps have mysteriously disappeared, Ms Miller said. When the restaurant didn't yet have one for each table, "people were fighting over them," she added.
All the hubbub around a light source may remind some diners of the exposed filament Edison light bulb, which became ten years ago

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Have you seen this table lamp? If you eat in New York, you will

A sleek newcomer, the Pina Pro, is popping up on many outdoor tables around town - and sometimes disappearing, as diners fall in love with it. her soft glow.< /p>

She is tall and slender, with an elegant conical hat. She frequents the tables of the most coveted restaurants in New York. It lights up a room.

Maybe you've seen it? She is a lamp. The Pina Pro wireless lamp from the Italian design company Zafferano, to be exact. And she's everywhere.

In the evening, waiters at the elegant Italian restaurant Altro Paradiso in SoHo place Pina Pros on the tables outside, where the 14 tiny LED lights each cast a soft, romantic glow over the duck stew pappardelle. A rather cozy glow, perhaps, to make you forget the rat that has just passed by, or the noise of the Ducati dealership opposite.

Chez le Hollandais , a few blocks away, at the corner of Prince and Sullivan streets, the black hue of the lamp matches the columns surrounding the outdoor tables. A street away, several Pina Pros line the plant-filled dining room of French-Indonesian restaurant Wayan. The list of devotees of the lamp continues to grow, mainly in Manhattan: Little Owl, Market Table, Cote, Mercer Kitchen, Vestry, Lodi, Cipriani. Brooklyn restaurants with Pina Pros include Evelina and Aurora.

"They are the most perfect model for an outdoor lamp for a restaurant," said said Lauren Miller, COO of Mattos Hospitality, which runs Altro Paradiso. "They're totally user-friendly, they last a really long time, they don't blow out," like candles do. At $149 a lamp, they're not cheap, but they're rechargeable.

ImageOwners and customers say they love that the lamp (pictured here at Little Owl) is compact and rechargeable, with a warm glow. Credit... Emon Hassan for The New York Times

At Altro Paradiso, a few lamps have mysteriously disappeared, Ms Miller said. When the restaurant didn't yet have one for each table, "people were fighting over them," she added.

All the hubbub around a light source may remind some diners of the exposed filament Edison light bulb, which became ten years ago