Plug-in or Hardwired Lighting
The listing tells you how the lamp gets power. Read that before you order, because the two kinds are not interchangeable after the box arrives.
Plug-in
A plug-in lamp has a cord and a plug. It uses an outlet you already have. No new ceiling box, and no electrician, as long as the cord reaches. This is the usual choice for a wall lamp beside a bed or a sofa, and for a rented room. The Perching Bird Plug In Wall Lamp and the Fanta Plug In Wall Lamp are named that way because the cord and plug are part of the piece.
Hardwired
A hardwired fixture joins the house wiring at a ceiling box or a wall box. A canopy covers the box. Most chandeliers and pendants in the shop are built this way: a chain or cable, then a canopy, and no plug. Moving the box, or adding one where there is only a blank ceiling, is work for an electrician. The weight still has to match a rated box.
How to tell
A cord that ends in a plug is plug-in. A canopy and a chain, with no plug, is hardwired. If the page does not say, ask before you pay. We do not treat a hardwired fixture as something you cut and fit with a plug unless that exact fixture allows it.
Pieces from the collection
The first two are plug-in wall lamps. The third is a chandelier, so check its page for the canopy and the drop before you assume a cord.
Send the ceiling height, the table or island size, and a photo. Email the room before you order.
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