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Article: Set of two Wall light sconces Origin: Germany Age: 1970s This set of two modernist lights was produced in France in the 1970s. It is made from glass with a abs...

The Sugar Collection draws inspiration from our emotional connect with food. Almost everyone has some nostalgic memory of Indian desserts and our indigenous candy and the collection ...

Vintage Italian wall lights with opaline cone shaped glass diffusers mounted on brass frames, in the style of Stilnovo / Made in Italy, circa 1950s Measures: height 11.5 inches, wid...

Daikon Studio POST Banded Duo Sconce The Banded Duo Sconce celebrates the poetic dialogue between light and form to create a fixture that leans into ...

Arturo Pani custom table lamp with central bronze column flanked by two panes of beveled glass raised on a square beveled glass base, with a patinated bronze beaubeche and scalloped details. Mexico, circa 1960 Provenance: Private residence, Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico Arturo Pani was one of the most significant figures working in design during the ‘Mexican Miracle’, a period from 1940-1970 of optimistic economic Expansion. While his brother, architect Mario Pani...

The Sugar Collection draws inspiration from our emotional connect with food. Almost everyone has some nostalgic memory of Indian desserts and our indigenous candy and the collection ...

The Sugar Collection draws inspiration from our emotional connect with food. Almost everyone has some nostalgic memory of Indian desserts and our indigenous candy and the collection ...

The Montera Pendant Light by Blueprint Lighting featured an undulating, biomorphic form atop a single blown satin glass globe. Creates flattering indir...

Gravity-defying playfulness requires technical precision. Suggestive minimalism of connective nodes creates a grid-like metal structure-- punctuated by a pair of glass globes...

A pair of Art Deco alabaster and bronze double-arm wall sconces, France 1930s. White alabaster with beautiful black veins, bronze beautifuly eleaborate. Both pieces in very good vint...

The Sugar Collection draws inspiration from our emotional connect with food. Almost everyone has some nostalgic memory of Indian desserts and our indigenous candy and the collection ...

These pure white sconces sit upon torch like bases, illuminating the room in the fusion of classical and romantic forms, typical of the neoclassical period. Alabaster lighting was the first used electrical lighting in Europe, prized for its ability to softly diffuse light. As mentioned above, the Neo-Renaissance style was in reality an eclectic blending of past styles, which the architect selected on the whims of his patrons. In the true Renaissance era there was a division of labour between the architect, who designed the exterior highly visible shell, and others—the artisans—who decorated and arranged the interior. The original Italian mannerist house was a place for relaxation and entertaining, convenience and comfort of the interior being a priority; in the later Baroque designs, comfort and interior design were secondary to outward appearance. This was followed by the Neoclassical period, which gave importance to the proportions and dignity of interiors, but still lost the comfort and internal convenience of the mannerist period. It was during the Neo-Renaissance period of the 19th century that the mannerist comforts were re-discovered and taken a step further. Not only did the improved building techniques of the 1850s allow the glazing of formerly open loggias and arches with the newly invented sheets of plate glass, providing the first "picture windows", but also the blending of architectural styles allowed interiors and exteriors to be treated differently. It was at this time that the concept of "furnishing styles" manifested itself, allowing distinctions to be made between interior rooms...