Show us your lamps!

[The real Henry]

We're going to built lamps in school, which we can design however we want!
So I decided to make a 1930's looking one. My problem is, that I've nothing I liked by now, so could you post pics of your favourite table lamp from the golden era?

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Henry -- My suggestion is that you might be able to acquire a Sears catalog from that era that displays the table lamps they sold. There might also be books out there, perhaps some FL members will know. Or perhaps there are vintage lamps or catalogs posted on Ebay that would give you some ideas.

I asked my mother about it. Her family was rather poor. She does not recall table lamps, rather the houses her family lived in had a lot of overhead light --sometimes two in a room. If you were poor, you might have a bare bulb and a light cord hanging down to turn it on; if you had some money, you might have chandeliers of varying sizes and prices. Mother does recall a kersone lamp, which was used for the dining room table.

What you didn't have was as many light sockets as we do now. You had a radio, maybe a lamp, an electric fan in hot weather. I recall my grandmother had to stand on a chair to plug in a toaster up by the overhead light because there were no sockets to plug it in. Same with the iron once she got an iron. (Before that, of course, she had several irons she kept hot on a wood burning stove.)

Anyway, hope there are some folks out there who can give you some pictures of table lamps.

karol

 

[Miss Neecerie]

They are reproductions, but still might give you ideas

http://www.artdecodecor.com/lamps.html

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I saw the thread title and thought i was going to get a grand sight.

oh well ...

bk

 

[Miss Neecerie]

I saw the thread title and thought i was going to get a grand sight.

oh well ...

bk

Not what you were thinking of....but hey...its a major prize sort of lamp

 

[herringbonekid]

I saw the thread title and thought i was going to get a grand sight.

oh well ...

bk

THAT thread would last about 15 seconds.

 

[shamus]

Here's a little gem I picked up the other day. You don't find many like this one. And the base is really heavy. Original everything. Check out that speckled paint!

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Wow! Now THAT,.....

Not what you were thinking of....but hey...its a major prize sort of lamp

........is a lamp!!! I gotta get one of those and put it in my front window.

 

[decodoll]

hmm...I have a couple of boudoir lamps from the 30's, but they're glass and kinda pink and girly. I'm guessing not really what you're looking for...

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

hmm...I have a couple of boudoir lamps from the 30's, but they're glass and kinda pink and girly. I'm guessing not really what you're looking for...

Post 'em decodoll!

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Here's one of a matched pair - my grandfather's, from the 1920's, reminds me of their family room - isn't that something how you never get over missing your grandparents

 

[decodoll]

Okay...here ya go... The shades are more recent, I'm sure.

(I made it all fancy )

and this one, which I just remembered. I'm guessing it's from the 30's. I am not an expert on lamps by any means...

 

[Mycroft]

Great topic, man. I do not have any digital photos,but my family used to own a lamp company(ies) one in 1930's-40's, I think and then another that from the 1950's to about the 1970's they are called Laurel Lamps out of NJ and the other one from the 30's I do not remeber on hand. Look for real 60ish lamps with mushroom shapes and they may be Laurel Lamps, if you post yours I may be able to ID them as Laurel's or not.

 

[Mojave Jack]

Not what you were thinking of....but hey...its a major prize sort of lamp

Isn't that one of those Italian lamps?! lol Ah, there's nothing like the glow of electric sex!

 

[Lauren]

My new (old) lamp I got this weekend with Queenie. Don't know much about it, but I sure love it! My mom and I traded stuff this weekend. I gave her furniture, and she bought me a lamp

 

[Etienne]

Just a thought, but you could also look at an old movie or two from that era and see what was used at the time....

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

We're going to built lamps in school, which we can design however we want!
So I decided to make a 1930's looking one. My problem is, that I've nothing I liked by now, so could you post pics of your favourite table lamp from the golden era?

Henry,

These are all from a 1942 book so there's nothing after 42; they're probably in fact mostly from the 1930's.

This should generate some ideas so you can come up with something original & unique or your own, but with a distinctive 1930s - early 40s dignity:

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[Cousin Hepcat]

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[Cousin Hepcat]

If anyones interested the book is "House & Garden's Complete Guide to Interior Decoration", really good, includes floor furniture layouts (which I mainly got the book for), scale & proportion, everything, 1942.

(sometimes you have to go "by the book" to get away from a "tacky flea market brick-a-brack" look and more of an "authentic 30s-40s" look... guess that's what happens when you hang out at flea markets too long...)

 

[scotrace]

Man that's a fantastic photo collection - and no small amount of work getting them here. Thanks!