Posts Tagged "Deep Bowl Lighting"
Professional’s Corner | Porcelain Enamel Pendants Add Exclamation Point to Design
In a recent blog post, we visited with Sarah Phipps, a resident of Bend, Oregon, who has been flipping houses for a number of years but is spending more and more time in design consultation. Clients are eager to tap into Sarah’s eclectic style, her skill set, and years of on-the-job knowledge. On a recent project, she transformed a tiny kitchen in an old mill cottage into a functional and funky space. Today we check out the living area of another original mill house located on the west side of Bend near the Deschutes River.
Read MoreMini Deep-Bowl Shade Offered in Wall Sconce and Stem & Loop Mount
Deep bowl warehouse shades are popping up all over from industrial farmhouses to urban restaurants to airport gift shops. These beautiful shades not only bring a focused beam of light to the surface where they hang, they become an integral design element of the room itself. While large pendants are stylish and functional and can make a dramatic statement in a room, they may easily overwhelm a smaller space.
Read MorePost Mount Barn Lights Enhance New Community
With a nod to Benjamin Franklin, who created the first street lights during the colonial era, we’ve come a long way in the last 200 years in finding our way after dark with the help of exterior lighting. From candles lit in glass globes to gas lights that emerged in the early 1800s, to a section of Broadway in New York City being dubbed the Great White Way because of the countless number of electric lights shining from the theater marquees, street lights ushered in a whole new era of nightlife for our country.
Read MorePendant Lighting For Your Vintage Farmhouse Kitchen
Originally suited for lighting machine shops, power plants, and shipping departments, the classic industrial shape and function of the Deep Bowl Pendant serves as a hallmark to mid-20th century RLM lighting innovation. This particular fixture was created to collect and focus an evenly distributed spread of light over workers and benches positioned below its deep dome reflector. As the Deep Bowl and other RLM models’ reputation spread throughout factories, various lighting manufacturers began to produce versions of these popular industrial lights. Companies such as Westinghouse, Appleton, and Benjamin began to produce pendant lighting following this deep reflector light design with subtle variations to this beloved performance driven light.
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