Light Up Your Home With a Antique Table Lamp.
Article by michael cartter
Interior decoration with the best furniture and exotic show pieces is aprodigy and life style, and if you add some antique pieces and give ita traditional touch, it would give an ambience of mysterious atmosphereas well as uniqueness. Antique table lamps take you back to your roots.They are not just outdated, old and shabby lamps but many of them areextremely beautiful reflecting the era of generation past and bringingus our past back in front of us.Antique table lamps in the room look as if time has slowed down as tolook at our past and create an atmosphere of modern with traditionalflare around us and in our living rooms. Creators of these lamps hadgiven such a beautiful look, that even the contemporary lamps could notcompete with that perfection. They have traits to give flamboyance andsimplicity without being too flashy. These lamps come in various shapes and sizes and are made from highfrilled brass and porcelain, and most of them are shorter having longspeared like shape with the easy recognizable designs. The antique table lamps gained much popularity in China with the ideasfrom western nations. Attracted by the silk, furniture, and porcelainof China, Europeans began to import these objects to their nation.These beautiful objects led to Europeans to formulate the Chinesedecoration style naming it Chinoiserie. There was a huge aristocraticdemand for these Chinoiserie style and as the legend says there wereMandarins who were living in the mountains having cobweb bridges andthey carried with them flower parasols, bamboo pavilions along withdragons as well as phoenixes. Soon the style Chinoiserie became afashion and a part of the interior decoration in the cities of London,Paris, Berlin, and St Petersburg. This style began to be used infurniture, wallpaper, fabric and porcelain etc and later it started tobe used in the table lamps. Its popularity increased in eighteenthcentury and since then its value and the power to captivate has stillnot waned.The uniqueness of the Chinoiserie lies in mi! xing rea lity with fictionand imaginative elements with creativity. There can be seen pictures ofthe imaginary stories on the body of lamps enabling us to enter intothe world of fantasy. These antique table lamps are also found inabundance in number of antique shops. So if you really want to have anantique table lamp, you have many choices to pick from and with theprices varying according to each piece and its age.
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