Thurston lamp? Say it ain't so! (or) Gerald Thurston sucks.  

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I'd say you were right on the money. Gerald Thurston sucks.
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I don't think i will be...
I don't think i will be posting pics of my home here. 🙂
I'm not in need of lamps, and it is a bit large in scale, but it would
feel right at home...

I could be wrong
Rockland, aesthetic judgements are usually made instinctively, but consequently they can be wrong--so, I'd love to see pics of your home and hear reasons from anyone why this is actually a good design. I could be like the man seeing Picasso and saying, "Bah! My kid could paint this!" Disabuse me sometime. : )

I love Gerarld Thurston ...
I love Gerarld Thurston and have 5 of his lamps all cool,

But did Thurston really design that lamp (above)?
I love Gerald Thurston too! My favorite lamp is designed by him. His name is to me synonymous with clean, beautiful, essentialized design. Which is why I am surprised to see that Dairy Queen lamp above attributed to him. Did he design it? If so, no, I don't really think Gerald Thurston sucks--but I do think the lamp above would be a lapse in his design judgement.

It probably looked great on...
It probably looked great on the drawing board

I don't care this this...
I don't care this this particular design either but you can't isolate one design and ignore someone's entire body of work and say that they "suck" based on the one design that you don't like. Again I don't like this design either but some of his other ones are amazing and the question is are you familiar with all of his other designs or is this the first one of his you've seen?

Good designers can do awful things
Somebody told me my reading lamp was Gerald Thurston. Don't know but it looks nice and is a great reading lamp.

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Guyinsf, I'm very familiar with Thurston and think he's an amazing designer. Saying a designer sucks has become a running joke on this message board, so I added it to my subject post. As I've stated, my favorite lamp is designed by Thurston. So, the answer is, yes.

Oh sorry Brent, I'm not up...
Oh sorry Brent, I'm not up with the latest on this forum so I don't what's sarcasm and what's not. Good to know you guys are having fun.

Well...
I do really think the first lamp sucks (though I'm open to arguments for why it's good design). My point was that Thurston's designs are so good that I just can't believe the first lamp above was really designed by him.
However, I've been looking at some design books from the late '60s, and I can see how this lamp could look--well, stylistically consistent with other pieces from the era.

In
In fairness, we are looking at half a lamp from not a great angle
Put a great shade on it, park it next to a white Panton chair, and you'd be halfway there to not making it suck 😉

strange but true
i was flipping through an old reference and sure enough, a whole page ad for lightolier, all these kind of lamps, and all by thurston. not this exact model, but i have no doubt it is. who knew?

it is so
i found the exact match. its bona-fide!