One of the most popular design styles of vintage lighting we see at VintageLights.com continues to be Spanish Revival style and its cousins, Mediterranean, Spanish Colonial, Storybook, and Mission, just to name a few. The style was made popular by the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. This style was most popular in the United States from 1915 through the 30s and had been a comfortable living design for decades in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.
In vintage lighting, hand wrought iron or cast metal designed to look like wrought iron are hallmarks of this style, as are the flowing intricate filigree of shade covers and backplates. Heavy looking, in either iron or aluminum, hanging on a chain or wall mounted, these fixtures can have a masculine, solid presence. Animal figures and / or heads also adorn these fixtures, with dragons a popular motif.
They are also a welcomed sight in many bungalows, especially bungalows with plaster or stucco exterior walls.
The storybook style is the most fanciful and whimsical of them all. Charming to no end.
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Listen to Your Eyes. PB
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