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For years now I had a pendant fixture sitting in the dark recesses of my vast storage vaults. This week, I hauled it out.     Moderne is an aesthetic that developed after the Art Deco period. This aesthetic was relatively short-lived, and reached the height of its popularity in the late 1930s. Emerald City,…

A little over two years ago I came across a huge pair of chandeliers made by the well-known Rejuvenation Company. The chandeliers were styled after Victorian-era gas fixtures. And they were HUGE! A whopping 39-inches wide. The architectural salvage company selling them were people after my own heart. The chandeliers had been treated quite badly…

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    Later however I realized that the house originally had gas/electric combination fixtures, so the blue beauty (all electric and about two decades later than the 1894 Cross House) was put in storage. And there it has sat, lonely and forgotten, until I hauled it out and restored it. It is now very happy!…

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            The fixture is scaled for a foyer or hall. It could be used as a porch light as well. It is from the 1920s, and would have been produced through to the 1930s. The fixture would look well in an Arts & Crafts-style home, bungalow, or Spanish-Revival.    …

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      The chandelier is 1920s and ideal for a home in the Colonial-Revival style. And I feel pretty damn pleased.     My online vintage lighting store.      

  Pan-style fixtures were wildly popular during the 1920s and 1930s. Such fixtures are defined by a pan-shaped body with protruding arms. The above chandelier was in an antique store. Its finish? A dull brown. Initially, I passed it by. A second look made me suspect that the dull brown was perhaps a century of…

The Virden Company produced a huge number of lighting fixtures during the 1930s and beyond. One of their most popular lines was their Winthrop Series, introduced about 1930. As a result, I am always coming across Winthrop fixtures, including the one shown here, as well as chandelier versions, 3-bulbs, 2-bulbs, and sconces. For me, the…

When I went to pick Bo up at the airport in Kansas City I had time to stop and buy a dozen loaves of bread at my favorite bakery (I then freeze them until use). I could also stop by several antique stores in my eternal search for vintage lighting! In one store there was a…

A few months back I purchased an extraordinary 1920s crystal chandelier. But I had no idea of how it all went together. The whole was in pieces in a box. Even all the crystals were mostly separated. Ugh. After a great deal of ado, and eight hours of my time yesterday (eight hours!) I am…

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  The set looked sooooooooo pitiful. The fixtures were dirty and SO obviously unloved that…I had no choice…but to buy them. No choice! This was kinda crazy, because were the three fixtures even complete? Did they retain all their crystals? Were the crystals undamaged? But…the fixtures were dirty and SO obviously unloved that…I had no…

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