Sometimes, someone not familiar with vintage lighting stumbles onto our website, becomes enthralled with what they see, and begins asking us some questions. Without coming right out and asking it, they are curious: Why vintage lighting anyway?
Here we go:
Vintage lighting provides a level of design and beauty almost never seen in contemporary mass produced fixtures, even though in their day these vintage lighting fixtures were mass produced. However during this time (1900 - 1920) designers were often schooled in Europe studying design theory for several years. Style, beauty, proportion, and functionality were all just as important as profitability back then because ALL manufacturers of that time were competing on all these levels, not just what can be produced most cheaply as seen today.
Vintage lighting provides a level of design and beauty almost never seen in contemporary mass produced fixtures, even though in their day these vintage lighting fixtures were mass produced. However during this time (1900 - 1920) designers were often schooled in Europe studying design theory for several years. Style, beauty, proportion, and functionality were all just as important as profitability back then because ALL manufacturers of that time were competing on all these levels, not just what can be produced most cheaply as seen today.
Vintage lighting offers more variety and more uniqueness than most of today's fixtures, as evidenced by over 10,000 images of antique lights seen in the old catalogs on our website.
Vintage lighting has a nostalgia which cannot be easily duplicated. And as a collectible, the value of vintage lighting continues to increase as the supply slowly decreases and the demand continues to climb.
The above fixture, made of solid Bronze, will be avaible soon on our website, www.VintageLights.com
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