request: show me your best lamp.
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@brennen this used to be my meta-metamour’s grandma’s lamp i think? i also have her sewing machine, i never met her but the lady had good taste.
@brennen This one, without a doubt. Made by an Italian woodworker who happens to be named Michelangelo, which means I can truthfully claim that I own a genuine Michelangelo.
It's made of walnut wood and white fabric and hangs over my sofa and coffee table.
@brennen I got it at Portland (OR) Saturday Market 40ish years ago
@sunumbral beautiful little object and i think it may be our first oil lamp in the thread that's still an oil lamp as opposed to a conversion
@brennen I don't know if this counts, but I ordered it from the UK and got it the day the queen died. It probably was put in my mailbox around the exact time she died.
It's the magic pyramid that stops my crushing sadness.
@RobotDiver i have a SAD lamp around here somewhere, it's probably time to drag it out of storage...
It's changing my life on the daily
@brennen
my mom bought me this artichoke lamp at a yard sale. she thought it was a pineapple plant
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also the faux tiffany (real stained glass but this isn't an actual Tiffany design) pendant in my kitchen, i fucking love this thing
@neckspike i love this kind of stuff. one day...
(also i think we have that same rack over the sink.)
@brennen I don't have this anymore, not actually sure where it went, but my friend made it for me in highschool.
It was a camshaft from a John Deere diesel engine, welded to a brake rotor for the base. The base was JD green, with a lampshade up top.
Huge, heavy, and I guess lampy. It was pretty neato, very industrial like.
@brennen a friend gave me this vintage lamp when she was moving away
@brennen I carved this octopus tentacle lamp a few years ago.
@brennen Suddenly realized i should participate! My husband took me antique shopping one birthday and we found this beauty
@brennen The one I made recently. 🥹 I’m still wildly pleased and proud!
https://flipping.rocks/@mycrowgirl/115273216211157927
@brennen I got this ceramic lamp from a local artist ~20 years ago. It's a bit hidden away on my crafting bench to protect it from our clumsy cat. 😅
The same ceramic lamp, now turned on. red light is radiating out from its eyes, mouth and nose hole.
a ceramic human skull that is either laughing or screaming. it is a mix of white and black, and the black parts look burned. it has two pink looking lightbulbs in the eye sockets. it is crammed in between various sewing supplies.
By which you mean "lamp I designed and made" right? I like this one best. My wife liked it so much she had me make another ten or twelve of them, without the broken glass fill, which she knit jar cosies for to provide an alternate light diffusion method
The lamp sitting on my washing machine in the sun, not powered on. This shows the red bulb slightly visible in the broken glass fill
A view inside the jar with a red bulb. This is a quart size mason jar with wide-mouth lid, a red standard US bulb (A19 shape, "medium" base) inserted into a jar full of broken tempered glass. The glass is snug around the bulb and must be partially removed to change the bulb
A view of the jar, again in a dark room and the lamp providing the only light, but now with a red bulb
Mason jar lamp. A jar is upside down on a simple wooden stand. The jar is packed to diffuse the light, which is on and white, the only source of illumination in this shot.
@elithebearded i dig this. i've experimented a bit with using clear containers filled with some kind of diffusing material and really need to revisit the idea.
We have left over broken tempered glass in bulk, so that was a natural for me. (We got free second hand windows from Craigslist, broke them, then used the broken glass mosaic style to tile the hall wall. What's left can be measured in gallons.)
@brennen my wife is a Tiffany lamp enthusiast so she found a pair of these that a lady was selling on Facebook marketplace and I have them on the nightstands in my bedroom now. (My wife has her own house and it's already full up on Tiffany lamps.)
@tedmielczarek beautiful! i'd love to own a tiffany-style lamp one of these decades. my neighbors used to make reproductions for a living and their house has a bunch of this stuff in it, i'm always just fascinated by it when we go over for dinner.
@brennen Not the best lamp I have when it comes to illuminating, but certainly the most visually interesting one.
@brennen The first is my best lamp, inherited from my Mom. The second is my partner's best lamp.
An art nouveau lamp with a brass candlestick base and two scrollwork wings leading to white glass dome shades with beaded fringes.
A brass table lamp with a glass shade. The shade is translucent, off-white, with flowers and leaves hand-painted on. The base looks like a lily pad with a neck that snakes around like a question mark. In behind is a picture of the white men in Montreal Canadiens jerseys and one in a suit.
@brennen not one I own, but one of my favourites: the Sorella lamp.
Famous for its appearances in the #Space1999 series. (Designer Harvey Guzzini)
The Sorella lamp in a scene from the 1970s cult favourite TV show Space 1999.
A white flowering lamp against a black background. The shape is a bit like a horizontally-stretched head and neck in a white hood.
@brennen Vintage 1940s that belonged to my grandparents. Settings are one light, other light, both lights. Only my mom and I seem to love it but I love it a lot, despite the base requiring constant dusting (pictured).
@beandreams most excellent. mine is also also multi-modal - you can have just the base, just the main bulb, or both. he did this sort of thing on all his lamps and they're great nightlights / atmosphere with just the colored base lit.
i'll start. my great-grandpa made this as a christmas gift for my grandma in 1976.
A close up of the base of the lamp showing the backlit stained glass in green, orange, red, and blue.
A lamp sitting on top of a dresser. The lit base is made of a wagon wheel hub with various colors of stained glass in the spoke holes and steel bands around it. The shade is an off-white plastic and it probably began life as a wastebasket. Also in photo: An old Zenith radio and some knick-knacks, art on walls.
@brennen OMG my parents have two wagon-wheel hub lamps! They’re not my favorite, though. My favorite and I went separate ways. One time, back when I worked a corporate job, after a raise I moved into an amazing studio and celebrated by buying a $500 lamp. It resembled a tree with two movable branches jagging up from a concrete base—and was heavy. I hauled it on foot the couple of blocks from the artsy furniture store to the apartment. Oh, how I loved that lamp. Eventually I left the apartment to travel indefinitely, the lamp ended up in my ex’s basement, and my ex sold that house, which was then demolished for gentrification. I still wonder sometimes what happened to that lamp—whether it was demolished, too, or someone saved it.
@superball i hadn't really thought about it until your reply, but i went and did an image search and of _course_ there are a ton of hub lamp examples out there, though i'll say none i like as much as this one.
@superball anyway: back when my sibling and i were still housemates, we bought this absolutely massive pale blue ceramic thrift store lamp we named Sweet Harriet. it was the most late-80s-living-room object imaginable, but like in the way that i mean that as a compliment. i gave it back to the thrift store when i moved into a tiny studio and i've regretted it ever since.
@brennen It sounds fantastic.
@brennen Here’s a lamp I made in 1986 for my girlfriend from a mid-twentieth century Italian teapot from Morgan’s in Montreal. I still have it (and her).
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I love the wide metal strapping combined with the wood and stained glass in that base!!
OMG I think I have that unicorn stained glass thing someplace
@westerling it was my partner's mom's, i think - she really had a thing for unicorn stuff
It's from the 80s. I collected unicorn stuff back then too, when I was a teen.