On Friday afternoon, my friend Katie and I set off for Hastings-on-Hudson in search of a used furniture store that she’d heard of. After several drive-bys – the place doesn’t have any sign indicating its presence save for a posterboard that says, very helpfully, “sale every day” – we finally found it on a practically deserted part of the Saw Mill, lodged in between a truck rental shop and a wholesale gravel supplier and presided over by several very large stuffed white tigers for no apparent reason at all.
I LOVE places like that.
Because if you find something good in a place like that, it’s really good.
This is what I found:
It’s about three feet tall and a little crooked and was completely coated with dust, but my feeling is that when you come across things like this, you buy them. I spent part of Sunday carefully going over the lamp with a sponge, and from what I can tell it was once bronze, but was painted powder-blue at some point (presumably to match the blue glass panels in the shade).
I think it’s amazing.
And I’m dying to know more about it, but so far my Internet searching has turned up nothing except for this carved lace lamp, which is vaguely similar (and being offered on eBay for 4k). I’d like to continue fixing up this piece – I thought about matching the blue paint and touching up the faded spots and maybe adding tiny flecks of gold leaf – but I figured I should probably try to find out a little more about it first.
Last time I posted a mystery thrift-store find here, it worked out incredibly well (scroll down through the comments to see what I mean).
So: anyone have any idea where this lamp comes from? If I had to guess era I’d say either turn of the century or 1970s, but honestly: I have no idea.
