# Securing designer lamps: cable, shade, and the one lamp everyone knows

> Secure lamps: original shade out of the sun, wiring done properly, small lamps not by the door.
> Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/designerleuchten-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion

A lamp is glass, metal, and a cable. The shade fades or splinters, the cable becomes a question for the home as soon as you connect it "quickly". In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is an object in the room.

## What breaks without a thief

Sun on the shade, heat from the wrong bulb inside, a shade you take hold of at the thin spot. You use the bulbs the piece can take. You hang nothing on the cable.

## When someone comes

Small table lamps of a known shape get taken. They do not stand on the sideboard in the hall. Large pendant lamps stay and are often crooked afterward. The door and the list secure them. The invoice sits in the document cabinet.

## The folder

Design, manufacturer, whether the shade is original, proof, photo. Later wiring is noted as later.


## Häufige Fragen

### Keep using the old line?

Only if someone allowed to do electrical installation clears it for this place. A collector's piece is not a free pass for a brittle line.

### Shade in the sun?

No. Color and plastic suffer.

### Small lamp in a certified safe?

If it fits and the price calls for it, yes. Otherwise away from the door.