There must be easily tens of thousands
of young people who are students in the various schools of design,
manual training high schools and normal art schools.
Why doesn't some far-seeing manufacturer of lighting-fixtures give these
young people a chance to adapt the fine old French and Italian designs
to our modern needs? Why not have your daughter or son copy such an
object that has use and beauty, instead of encouraging the daubing of
china or the piercing of brass that leads to nothing? And if you haven't
a daughter or son, encourage the young artisan, your neighbor, who is
trying to "find himself." Let him copy a few good old fixtures for you.
They will cost no more than the gaudy vulgar fixtures that are sold in
so many shops.
The photograph shown on page 108 illustrates the possibility of using a
number of lighting-fixtures in one room. The room shown is my own
drawing-room. You will observe that in this picture there are many
different lights. The two old French fixtures of wrought gilt, which
flank the mantel mirror, hold wax candles. The two easy chairs have
little tables beside them holding three-pronged silver candlesticks.
There is also a small table holding an electric reading-lamp, made of a
Chinese jar, with a shade of shirred silk. The chandelier is a charming
old French affair of gracefully strung crystal globules.
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