So I picked up a lamp and have come up with bupkis in my research thus far so I come here begging for help from you wonderful people.
There are lots of lamps out there that are very similar in style and look, but not quite a match. The really interesting thing about this lamp, to me, is what it looks like under the shade - it resembles a simple Poulsen pendant lamp and is metal. ( it's the best way I can describe the non-harp set up of the lamp.) The cone where the bulb goes in is enameled metal. There is an "F" on the knob/ switch.
The 2 guesses I've had so far from educated guessers is early Thurston or possibly Poulsen, but all I can find with those designers is close but no cigar.
The fabric shade is in mint condition due to a plastic shower cap like cover being on it all these years.
Just curious if anyone here recognizes it. I don't know if this will help but it was purchased from a man who was a photographer & ran a camera store for 60 years. Much of the other lighting fixtures and lamps there (of which I bought a few) were industrial lighting for photographers' studios.
Thanks to any one who has any input of any kind to add.
Direct links in case the others fail me.
- Maria
Thanks Jdip!
Wow, I never thought I get a reply so fast and from my initial searches I believe you are on target! The desk lamps I'm finding have an very similar make up to my floor lamp's conical bulb layout - same cone and metal rings look. So great lead and one I had not found thus far.
Thanks so much J. Dip I will be digging into this tonight. Since you are familiar with the Wheeler designs do you know anything more about them off hand? Only thing I can't seem to find are lamps using fabric shades, the "sight light" floor lamps seem to take up all the google results.
-Maria
Thanks SDR
I appreciate those comments, you hit the nail on the head.
The lamp is out of the norm for the era we believe it is from, we have been researching Wheeler style lamps and there are so many aspects of this lamp that are precisely "Wheeler" in nature, it leaves little doubt that they produced it.
But in no searches can we find another like it, which is the baffling part.
It perhaps was a line they produced in little quantity that did not take off like their "Light Line" series.
Our search continues and like other older items, we may not be able to actually find the year of production or the name of this line.
- A.S.
sigh...too many lamps...
My partner seems tired of my researching yet another unique lamp and just wants to sell it and move on. I tend to get attached to all my finds to some degree, and at least want to find out everything can about them before I consider letting it go. (I say this typing from a chair and table I bought with the intention of selling.)
I admit, I have a lamp problem, and have been battling it since I was in High School. Something about nicely designed lamps makes me weak in the knees and my house has an almost ridiculous amount of them. (I say almost because my guy made me put some in storage that I refuse to let go of because no bedroom needs 6 lamps.
This only gets worse because I got this floor lamp knowing full well a Laural floor lamp I won at an auction a few weeks back is due to be delivered this week. Sigh.
Maybe I'll be the first MCM lamp addict to be on A&E's intervention. At least its more space friendly than a MCM credenza addiction.
-Maria
sorry
was away for a bit. I too have a lamp addiction.....24 on display in my 1 bedroom NYC apartment. I know, its ridiculous but only a few are actually plugged in. To me they are art.
I have not seen your particular lamp before but just knew it from the design of the bulb housing/reflector.
Not too bad
Thanks for the help.
The Evolux lines certainly share the same desired result profile wise. With Evolux there are a lot of differences and no shared identical components, but great lamps.
The M.G. Wheeler sockets, top enameled metal piece all match Wheeler in that category, along with too many other details to think it could be anything else.
- A.S.
J. Dip & Tom Ado & Jim
Good to know there are others out there that need lamps anonymous meetings. J.Dip - I lived in NYC for awhile and realized my addiction to finding mcm at flea markets and estate sale meant unless I ever became very rich I would need to live somewhere with cheaper, larger real estate options. So I traded in my narrow NYC apt with 4 roommates in alphabet city for eventually owning a home in a smaller city. Maybe one day I'll get to enjoy the best of both worlds, but I thought Manhattan was insanely expensive a decade ago and it's much much worse today.
Tom Ado, you truly have too much awesome stuff - and a view of a awesome windmill out your windows - it's not quite fair.
Oh, thanks for posting those lamps Jim. They do share similar lines and sad to say yet another series of lamps I would probably buy if I found them at an estate sale.
-Maria
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