Gaetano Pesce named the present towering floor lamp after the ancient Ammonite god Moloch, to whom certain Levantine tribes sacrificed children by fire. Fed by the offspring of its own progenitor, Pesce’s lamp derives from designer Jac Jacobsen’s ‘L-1’ adjustable table lamp (1937), of which Norwegian manufacturer Luxo has produced more than 25 million examples. The ‘Moloch’ presides everywhere at the same time, seeing, allowing us to see, at the end of its spring-balanced arm.