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sirlampsalot
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24/03/2009 4:41 am  

Is there anyone in the DA world that likes MCM tension pole lamps as much as I do. I own around 40 of them. Most are either Danish in style or the original Stiffel Designs


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william-holden-...
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24/03/2009 5:39 am  

Forty pole lamps?
That seems a tad excessive.
What prompts a modernist to hoard? This has always puzzled me. If you cram enough modern elements into a space, the overall effect is stuffy Victorian.


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24/03/2009 7:31 am  

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He doesn't say they're all installed and lighted. . .


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24/03/2009 8:10 pm  

If so please show me the light!
That would be a sight to see 😀


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sirlampsalot
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25/03/2009 5:42 am  

No I dont have them all installed.
I have only a few used at a time. I am ALWAYS willing to sell one to anyone who would like one. In addition
I have about 10 or so at different houses of people I know
who like them. So...I just let them use them.


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LuciferSum
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26/03/2009 6:31 pm  

Hoarding:
Objects always have some sort of covetable lure - the more scarce the better. Scarcity drives desire, exhibits uniqueness, and promotes elitism.
All of these things have been present in my 'collecting' phase, but it was also about much more than that. I'm a physical person by nature, and the physicality of an object reveals much more about an object than any book, video, or website. So, for me - looking at an Evan's production chair wasn't enough - I had to interact with it. And since they frown on that at most museums owning seemed the best option.
What is interesting is that, as soon as I own something, I tend to lose a large amount of the interest in it. So, what was once buying sprees akin to SirLampsALot is now an one-object-in/one-object-out equation. I'm happy to sell all but the most emotionally tagged of pieces.
Altho I will say - I like ensuring they go to a grateful home rather than to an indiscriminate dealer.


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sirlampsalot
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28/03/2009 2:30 am  

Thanks
Thanks for the responses. Although, This is not the path I intended this post to go. Like I said I am willing to sell.
I probably should not have purchased so many. I was just wandering if anyone was interested in the design of these lamps clearly from the 1950's ,60's and 70's.


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bustelo
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28/03/2009 4:25 am  

Design for the masses or Masses of design
It pleases me to own items that I admire.
I have also been sternly admonished for becoming too personal with museum inventories; and so, I bought my own. Luckily, I react to mass produced goods and accept my financial inability to own a Brancusi or Burgoyne Diller or?
I sheepishly accept my reverence to thing-ism, and a few friends even get it, or at least pretend to understand. Fortunately the pieces I have researched, longed for and eventually purchased bring me great joy daily and through the years.
I am guilty of over consumption so that I can decide later if it will remain rather than regret not having made the purchase. This affliction leaves me in a personal quandary as I have an aversion for materialism and my space is becoming filled with lamps to better illuminate my chairs where I sit to gawk at my books and other furniture.
Sirlampsalot I too enjoy pole lamps, sconces, floor lamps?I have a visceral attraction to shapes. The lamps and furniture I most enjoy have a tangible tension in their design - that IT factor of an object which has to be experienced but is difficult to describe. You seem to have found it a few dozen times, congratulations.


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