This lamp is one of a pair that we made here at Ten High Street. Making lamps is really not that hard mechanically. What is difficult is finding the right combination of "ingredients".
In this case we started with a pair of vintage eastern European glass containers. The folks we got them for said they were from the Czech Republic and that makes a certain amount of sense as there is a lot of glass produced over there and the booth at the Brimfield show where these came from was absolutely full of hand blown glass that had been imported.
Next came the hard part. Finding something beautiful and interesting to put in the old jars. In this case we used spools of old Scalamandre silk thread, also from Brimfield I might add. The blue, red, green and gold sheen of the various silks gives the lamps an elegant glow that fits beautifully in a lot of different settings. We particularly liked how they looked in our Boston living room next to the window overlooking the Charles River.
Finally we come to the shades. We have our important ones custom made by a very talented lady who's firm goes by the melodic name of Gaialumina. These are made from coated heavy textured paper with little square swatches of soft red and yellow.
All in all a most lovely way to light your room.
