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Deco Lights the Way
If you're aiming to beautify a bathroom from the era between the wars, your first stop might be Paris—the 1925 Paris Exposition, that is. That famed exposition introduced Art Deco to the world through a wealth of cutting-edge modernist designs, and it was also the source of the name.
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Lights, Camera, Blastoff...
While many folks think of the 1950s as an era of conformity, in the realm of home decor a revolution of sorts was quietly taking place. Traditional furnishings—the heavy, ornate, and wooden items crowding Grandma's house—were giving way to simpler, more streamlined creations. Spurred by the postwar economy, suburbia was growing across the United States...
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We Sing the Eclectic Electric
If your old house dates from the years "between the wars" (alternately known as the Depression Era), determining what kind of light fixtures graced it originally may be baffling. That's because 1925 to 1940 was a design period that echoed the musical of the day- "Anything Goes."
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