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Vintage Lighting is Reborn in a Trendy Seattle Restaurant

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A recent post on Remodelista’s design blog showed vintage lighting fixtures hanging above the center island of an open kitchen at Sitka & Spruce, a casual restaurant in Seattle. Each of the vintage lights uses a metal cap, known as a “screw heel” to connect the RLM warehouse shade to the socket. The screw heel and green porcelain enamel finish on these vintage lights complements the rustic, industrial elements of the restaurant. Such examples are the long butcher block table, original factory windows and white brick walls.vintage-lighting-fixtures1-300x281.jpg Read More »

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Sign Lighting That Draws Attention!

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Well placed sign lights provide a warm glow that invites customers and guests. Functional versatility is one of the main reasons why gooseneck lights hold so much value with shop and restaurant owners. During the daylight hours when the lights are not illuminated, the shade’s shape and style add an aesthetically pleasing appeal to the exterior. When the sun goes down, the gooseneck lights provide focused lighting in a concise area to make an immediate impression. Read More »

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Porcelain Barn Lights Used at MacDill Airforce Base

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To find the inspiration behind each of our vintage inspired porcelain barn lights, take a look at archived photos of factories, warehouses and military bases. In this photo from the Library of Congress, you’ll see a flush mount warehouse pendant attached to the ceiling beam. It has a shallow bowl shape that’s virtually identical to the Ivanhoe® Aero Porcelain Pendant!
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Vintage Barn Pendant Used in Toronto Apartment

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Vintage Warehouse PendantYour home should be a reflection of who you are as a person — everything from the furniture that fills the space to the artwork you choose to place on the walls. Well, a Toronto condo, featured on Apartment Therapy, appears to be the exact reflection of its owner, a 30 year-old male. A lot of his pieces were hand-me-downs coming from a friend or family member: his coffee table was his mother’s toy chest, and the vintage barn light hanging over his dining table is exactly that – a light that came from an actual old barn. Read More »

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Industrial Porcelain Pendant Lights in Tampa Cigar Factories

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For decades, the Tampa Bay area was known as the cigar capital of the United States. Vicente Martinez Ybor, a prominent Spanish-born cigar manufacturer moved his business from Cuba, to Key West and finally to a plot of land in Tampa Bay. Through the years, additional cigar-making companies sprouted up throughout the Tampa Bay area and many of their warehouses were lit with industrial porcelain pendant lights. As you can see in the photo above, these pendants were strategically placed to provide a directional beam of light over the tables occupied with workers rolling cigars. Toward the end of the 20th century and into the early 2000’s, increased taxes on tobacco products forced many of Tampa’s cigar factories to permanently close their doors.
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