Show and Tell Friday is moving to Thursdays -- today, it's our favorite lamp.
This one (please ignore the crummy paint job left by painters who didn't bother to remove light fixtures before they painted) came from my grandparents' house,
so I can date it to 1947. I remember many happy sleepovers, lying on the floor in Grandma's room and looking up at this lamp before I fell asleep. When my mother had to sell the house, I asked for this. One of the first things we did when we moved to our own house, which had been stripped of all the 1929 doorknobs and light fixtures by a previous tenant in a fit of pique, was install this lamp in the bedroom. It has a certain elegance to it, like a wedding cake with its ring of "piped" dots around the rim and swags of glass and pendants, but it isn't fussy. I love the simple grace of it, and it makes me happy to see it in my own house.
These are as yet only lamps to be --
but they are very pretty. We bought them at Wah Tung in Admiralty, just before we came home from Hong Kong. Haven't had a chance to get the fixtures to convert them from the candlesticks they started out as, but I'm looking forward to the finished lamps! I love the color of the ripe peaches and the dark branches against the taupe background, and the little golden-orange bats (the Chinese words for "bat" and "happiness" are both pronounced "fu"), and the way that they are apparently similar but actually just a little bit different from each other.
I love it!
Posted by: erica | February 09, 2006 at 01:08 PM
I love both...and I would never be imaginative enough to have purchased the candlesticks with that in mind...
Posted by: blackbird | February 09, 2006 at 01:24 PM
Blackbird, there were dozens already made up in the store. No creativity necessary! We just figured that the electrical insides wouldn't speak American.
Posted by: Jeanne | February 09, 2006 at 01:35 PM
That lamp ROCKS! I love it! I love that you used to fall asleep after looking at that lamp. Neat!
Posted by: gronce | February 10, 2006 at 05:23 AM
Very pretty candlesticks/lamps to be. I suppose there is a holdover Asian feel to your decorating? Or just a few pieces?
Soon we must boil the kettle and cast on!
Posted by: Elizabeth | February 10, 2006 at 09:16 AM
wow!
That LAMP!
I adore Art Nouveau / Art Deco and collect bits and pieces that are not too $$$ prohibitive.
That is such a gorgeous lamp! you are clever to ask for it...they don't make them like that anymore
Posted by: maniacalmultitasker | February 12, 2006 at 10:19 PM
I think it is decal printed. If it is hand painted. It is very beatuiful!
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