Trend of Interior Illumination

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 56, 8 March 1939, Page 5

Trend of Interior Illumination

CHICAGO—Lamps now offer a. new service for the American home. Besides giving illumination, they’ll change the whole, atmosphere of the place if you use one of the new fluorescent lamps shown at Ihe mid-winter home furnishings market here recently. The new lamp, as displayed at the .Merchandise Alart, has four tubes of light—daylight, rose, green, and amber —each one claimed to produce many times as much light as a standard lamp with half the heat loss. The bulbs of the new lamp are nt least a foot long in tubular style and are set in a metal frame which require.-, a. super-size shade, the shape of an in verted boat, to thoroughly canopy the new contraption. .Most of these shades were shown in pleated silk with fringed lower edge. Makers of the new fluores<-ent lamp sing its advantages in the fact that instead of having Io buy new draperies or new floor-coverings to get, a changed atmosphere, the home maker can “re decorate her home by just turning on a different light.” Other Trends But. to get down to more serious business and to under current trends in lamps, it is found by visiting scores and scores of exhibits of lamp manufacturers both at Hip American Furniture Alart and the Alerchandise Alart, that lamps are still farther away from the dead white shades than they have been for several seasons. Al any of the new shades have adopted warmer colours like deep sand, amber, rose beige, and deeper rose. With a flare for the daring in the midst of these lighter shades, several manufacturers have featured deep plum, wine, burgundy, and green in their new lamp shades. One of the most interesting trends to the average homemaker is the ensembling of lamps in the room with two and, sometimes three or tour of the same kind of shades or the same type of base. For some time, it has been the vogue Io use twin lamps at the ends of a. sofa or davenport. This has been done either with floor lamps or with table lamps standing in exactly the same position on identical tables. Now a third and fourth lamp is introduced having the same kind of shade. It is quite- the coming mode to use as many as four lamps in one room all having the same kind of material in their shades, observers find. In such a case the bases would probably be different, or perhaps twn of one kind and two of another. The trend is expanding also Io employ floor and table lamp with matching shades