This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... XI PERIOD STYLE IN LIGHTING FIXTURES IN a broad view of lighting the appearance of the fixture is of secondary importance. This does not mean that artistic design or period style should be neglected, for any element, however insignificant, must receive proper attention if the final result is to be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... XI PERIOD STYLE IN LIGHTING FIXTURES IN a broad view of lighting the appearance of the fixture is of secondary importance. This does not mean that artistic design or period style should be neglected, for any element, however insignificant, must receive proper attention if the final result is to be harmonious. The intricacies of the artistic aspects of lighting-fixtures cannot be fully discussed in a few pages, for the evolution of the various styles and their modifications and modulations leads from the roots of racial and national characteristics through the intricate branches formed by the fluctuations of the fortunes of nations. Superposed upon all these are the influences of rich or powerful or creative individuals, of increasing scientific knowledge, of new lightsources, and of manufacturing and commercial expediencies. Indeed, the whole is a complex web whose unravelling would lead far afield. However, a view of the high-lights should be helpful to the householder. The architect and the decorator meet with no difficulties in this field; in fact, we criticize their past efforts chiefly because their attention has been concentrated so powerfully upon period style, artistic design, and the appearance of lighting-fixtures that they have not looked beyond them to the wonders of light as an expressive medium. One of the earliest periods which is reproduced to-day is the Egyptian. The oil-lamp with its open flame was the lighting device of early Egyptian centuries. Ancient tombs, early writings, and the relics of ancient China, of India, of early Greece, and of the Roman Empire show the oil-lamp to have been the chief source of light. Naturally it influenced the mechanical features of the early fixtures, but the ornamentation was always...
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