My, my, my, what a beauty! And,
hey, need a pair? They're available.
Back in the olden days, B.e. (Before
eBay), when I had an Art Deco emporium on Market Street here
in San Francisco, a guy from L.A. had been supplying me with
fixtures exactly like this. He said they were out
of a department store there. Sort of like a "my grandmother"
story perhaps. Regardless, they sold like hotcakes, and I sold
39 of the babies over a few years, which put me right down to
the last one. Hmmmm, I thought, this is the first time I've ever
sold more than one of anything in this crazy business. Why not
take the last one -- and here's the dirty word -- REPRODUCE
it??? Now this is not something I considered lightly, knowing
what a nightmare manufacturing can be. And, I wasn't disappointed,
it was worse than a total nightmare!!! But, my pain is your
gain, because now it's available to the whole frigging world!
Just think, these could be hanging in CHINA, for God's
sake!!!
As you see it, it measures about
37 inches long, and the disc is 18 inches in diameter. A great
chandelier for your Moderne dining room or entryway! Of course
I was painstaking in the design and construction, Quality Queen
that I am. The metal discs under the glass disc are 1/4 inch
thick chrome-plated steel, and the glass disc is 1/4 inch thick,
with a perfectly sand-blasted pattern. The ball underneath is
made of lucite, as are the adjustable rings above the socket
housing, on the shaft. And, speaking of adjustment, you can order
the fixture in any length (a $75 resizing fee applies, you can't
imagine the extra work)! I'd recommend that it be no shorter
than 24 inches overall, to give the parts some breathing room
and keep the proportions nice. It takes a conventional 100-watt-sized
bulb, but don't forget that you have metal discs under the glass,
so you don't get a lot of direct light. But, what you do get
it lots of ambiance, you know that je ne sais quoi
thing which gets your guests all excited and jealous when they
come over, and wondering how you can be so cool, such the little
decorator, and they so stuck in their ways, so pathetically conservative
and boring....
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