This week were are celebrating Spring's increasing light by sharing some of our newly-acquired lamps, now available in the LEO Design on-line store.
The Art Deco Movement looked forward and backward—at the same time. Deco design was streamlined, aerodynamic, forward-leaning. It promoted the promise of a hopeful, efficient and mechanized future. At the same time, the Art Deco Movement drew inspiration from arts of the Ancient Past: Egypt, Greece, Rome.
Take the Art Deco glass table lamp, shown above. The two-handed urn is inspired by Ancient Greco-Roman vessels—even banded with foliage, like an Olympian's laurel crown. Yet the streamlined compactness and Machine Age curves all reach-forward to Art Deco's bright and promising future.
The lamp above, made in the Thirties, is a blown-glass vessel, interior-painted with black paint. It's a handsome and sophisticated, compact yet strong. Click on the photo above to learn more about it.
More handsome lighting tomorrow and in the days to come.
Though our Greenwich Village store is now permanently closed, LEO Design is still alive and well! Please visit our on-line store where we continue to sell Handsome Gifts (www.LEOdesignNYC.com).
To arrange a visit our Pittsburgh showroom (by private appointment only), please call 917-446-4248.