Knife Classic
Knife Classic
Table Lamps for the Classic Interior
The “art” of interior design is generally seen as divided between modern contemporary, eclectic, or, interiors which include design components from a range of sources and classic, or, traditional interior design.
A definition of “classic” is “a work of recognised excellence", or one that has “stood the test of time”.
A classic lamp, by definition, is well qualified, having seen a minimum of 100 years of changes in fashion, trends and faddish crazes. Here it stands a century later, as elegant and timeless as the day it was made, having survived them all!
For a classic or eclectic interior, fine antique table lamps will quickly “pull the look together”, adding interest and an overall sense of high style.
Sophisticated interior design requires thoughtful and subtle lighting. To over or under light a beautiful interior is to detract from the finished effect. The great benefit of table lamp lighting is that it is easily portable, allowing for lighting to be repositioned to produce the most satisfactory outcome.
The classic lamp calls for the classic lampshade. Lampshades can be made in many materials with silk being the fabric of choice. For the ultimate in luxurious furnishings, silk can also be used to line a shade ensuring a professional and polished finish. This sumptuous textile is available in an almost endless array of colours and is the last word in elegance and refinement. A full range of shade styles are available in any shape. Soft or bonded, knife, box or diamond pleats or perhaps a ruffling effect.
Our home interiors are an important part of our lives offering an excellent means of self expression and comfortable retreat from the busyness of the world in which we live. Well placed antique and decorative lamps with their gentle, glowing light make a valuable contribution to the feeling of any classic interior.
A particularly elegant pair of late 19th century, Chinese export, papier mache, Mei P’ing shaped table lamps, the slender lamps in imitation of patinated, gilded bronze. The vase shapes very delicately decorated with faded, gilded willows overhanging a village scene. In the foreground, painted in miniature, is an amusing subject of two boys at play with a ball. Although diminutive, the children are reproduced with a very fine sense of movement. The lamps on original black lacquered bases.
Circa 1900 Overall height (including shades) 17.5" / 45cm
Reputable, decorative lighting specialists such as The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co are able to offer a wide range of styles and designs, with lamps in porcelain, cinnabar, glass and pottery.
The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co specialise in antique table lamp lighting with an on-line range of over 100 unique, antique and vintage lamps on view. Lamps are shipped ready wired for the U.S, the U.K and Australia.
You are invited to visit their web site at www.antiquelampshop.com
© The Antique & Vintage Table Lamp Co 2009
About the Author
Maurice Robertson, principal of The Antique and Vintage Table Lamp Co , has had a lifetime’s association with antique porcelain and pottery. From an early age he recalls picking up tea cups, looking for the mark on the base, discerning the maker.
Extending his ceramics expertise into the quality table lamps seen on the company’s site, he is well known to local and international interior designers who have included many of his table lamps in their projects and has also supplied items of national interest to the official Sydney residence of the Australian Prime Minister.
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