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On the interior arrangement and decoration of the house
DOI article:Artificial lighting
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Artificial Lighting
Now, strange as it may be to have
to state so self-evident a proposition, the
primary function of all lighting apparatus
is to give light; which essential, however,
is not by any means invariably fulfilled.
All standard lights must have some sort
of support from below, but the designer
who indulges in unrestricted liberty is
apt to defeat the very object of illumina-
tion by excess of projecting ornaments,
which cast shadows just where there
ought to be an uninterrupted flood of
light. This defect may be obviated by
means of reflectors, in the constructing
of which Messrs. Benson & Co. have, by
careful attention to scientific principles,
attained singular efficiency.
The second condition is stability. A
lamp that is easily overturned is a positive
danger. Yet there are some lamps so
top-heavy and altogether so unsubstantially
built that they are apt to overbalance
with the slightest provocation.
Another most desirable condition in
table lamps is facility in handling for
portability sake. Yet some lamp-stems
so bristle with ill-placed, spiky ornament
that to get a firm grasp for lifting them
is a painful operation, if not positively
impossible.
billiard room designed by a. harold smith candlestick design there are, of
fitting executed by i.ionel teale & cx course, plenty of excellent precedents to
follow, whether it be for holding a single
candle or whether it be for branched lights,
does it proceed, like the other, from lack of tech- Mr. Rathbone's wrought-copper candlestick for
nical capacity, but rather from capacity misdirected, one candle (p. 165) and Mr. H. Stahler's
Another affectation some-
times met with is the ex-
aggeration of the bolts,
screws and straps with
which the metal work is
fastened together, or the
making an actual pattern
out of clumsy bolt-heads,
where none are needed nor
used structurally at all.
This is a reprehensible
plan, because, as already
stated, when exposed, it
brings into contempt, to-
gether with the shams,
even those features that
are bona fide integral to the
" billiard room fitting designed and executed
construction. by elgood & brown
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Now, strange as it may be to have
to state so self-evident a proposition, the
primary function of all lighting apparatus
is to give light; which essential, however,
is not by any means invariably fulfilled.
All standard lights must have some sort
of support from below, but the designer
who indulges in unrestricted liberty is
apt to defeat the very object of illumina-
tion by excess of projecting ornaments,
which cast shadows just where there
ought to be an uninterrupted flood of
light. This defect may be obviated by
means of reflectors, in the constructing
of which Messrs. Benson & Co. have, by
careful attention to scientific principles,
attained singular efficiency.
The second condition is stability. A
lamp that is easily overturned is a positive
danger. Yet there are some lamps so
top-heavy and altogether so unsubstantially
built that they are apt to overbalance
with the slightest provocation.
Another most desirable condition in
table lamps is facility in handling for
portability sake. Yet some lamp-stems
so bristle with ill-placed, spiky ornament
that to get a firm grasp for lifting them
is a painful operation, if not positively
impossible.
billiard room designed by a. harold smith candlestick design there are, of
fitting executed by i.ionel teale & cx course, plenty of excellent precedents to
follow, whether it be for holding a single
candle or whether it be for branched lights,
does it proceed, like the other, from lack of tech- Mr. Rathbone's wrought-copper candlestick for
nical capacity, but rather from capacity misdirected, one candle (p. 165) and Mr. H. Stahler's
Another affectation some-
times met with is the ex-
aggeration of the bolts,
screws and straps with
which the metal work is
fastened together, or the
making an actual pattern
out of clumsy bolt-heads,
where none are needed nor
used structurally at all.
This is a reprehensible
plan, because, as already
stated, when exposed, it
brings into contempt, to-
gether with the shams,
even those features that
are bona fide integral to the
" billiard room fitting designed and executed
construction. by elgood & brown
~'~ X f rtPlf 1^7*