Vintage and Antique Industrial Lighting
Let There Be Light Bulbs: How Incandescents Became the Icons of Innovation
By Hunter Oatman-Stanford — From the neon tubes of theater marquees to your desk lamp at work, from the million-watt glare of sports stadiums to the nightlight faintly glowing in your child’s bedroom, it’s impossible to imagine the modern world without artificial lighting. More than a century after the widespread adoption of electricity, it's clear that our lust for light bulbs brought us into the future: The desire for incandescent lighting resulted in the creation of America’s electric grid, which improved...
Antique Oil Lamps and Chimneys
By Maribeth Keane — My grandparents were antique collectors all their lives, their whole house was furnished in antiques. They had a lot of oil lamps and I suppose that’s where I got my first interest. I’ve always had more of an interest in the glass lampshades than the lamps but it kind of just evolved into lamp collecting instead of glass, and not pattern glass per say, just colored glass. I started out collecting miniature lamps and built up a collection of maybe forty, nothing high end, just mid range...