| Antique Lamps - Decorating Your Home With Antique Lamps |
It may be a family heirloom or a lamp you found in an antique sale room, but decorating your home with antiques of any kind, including antique lamps, can create a stunning statement. A favourite trick with interior designers is to mix different styles and period pieces within a scheme.
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| Antique Lamps As Artistic Expression |
Mankind has always been attracted to beauty. We can still look with admiration at great, early Egyptian art and at the unsurpassed sculpture and architecture of classical Greece.
At no time through the long passage of history has humanity not been expressed through art. In ever |
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| Antique Table Lamps - In Cassolette Style |
Prior to the development of modern sanitation etc, hygiene was poorly understood and certainly received very little attention. The air was full of “smells” from a multitude of sources and one of the most interesting descriptions comes from that indefatigable diarist, Samuel Pepys.
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| Behind Every Good Lamp Is A Good Lamp Shade! |
| Your beautiful lamp sits in just the right corner in your favorite room providing a welcome glow each evening. It may have once belonged to mother or that of a favorite aunt or perhaps you spent years hunting through antique shops? But as elegant as the lamp base is, the shade has n |
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| Antique Lamps – Italy’s Renaissance Man |
| Ulysses Cantagalli is recognised today as a major 19th century Italian potter. Hardly anything is known about him prior to 1878 when he is recorded as taking over the family factory in Florence. Florence, of course, was the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance and Cantagalli’s earl |
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| Antique Lamps – A Beautiful Investment |
| There is something special about antique lamps. In this modern age of mass production antique lamps take us back to a time when decorative items were painstakingly manufactured by master craftsmen. But before we make a purchase we need to acquire collector’s informat |
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| Antique Lamps – Why We Call China, China |
Porcelain, is today, so widely available and is such an every day commodity, that we could very easily overlook just how different it was.
The West was introduced to oriental porcelain as early as the mid 15th century, when preciousexamples appeared in Lisbon, Portu |
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| Antique Lamps & Lampshades – Nina Campbell’s Shoes & Handbags |
According to world-renowned interior designer Nina Campbell, “Lampshades are like the shoes and handbags of the home: the right shoes can make an outfit – but if you have the wrong shoes, you can feel old-fashioned in the smartest suit”.
She further adds: - “Th |
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| Antique Lamps – The Colour Of Jade |
| Celadon is just one of the beautiful glazes used on Chinese ceramics. The colour is derived fromiron and ranges in tone from a grayish green to a sea-green, with the intent to reflect the wide range of greens found in jade. While other colours naturally occurring in jade such as yellow c |
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| Antique Lighting – Papier Mache Lamps |
Antique lamps, you would expect to be made of porcelain, glass, wood, or brass, but not paper! But, yes, there are papier mache antique lamps.
Papier Mache is a French word, which literally means, mashed paper, or, sometimes, chewed paper. There is a story that this interpretation |
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