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Thabur - Vintage mint green floral ceiling lamp with bakelite Niko fixture.

SKU: 1375

Thabur - Vintage mint green floral ceiling lamp with bakelite Niko fixture. 

Vintage Art Deco ceiling lamp. 

Thabur - mint green floral ceiling lamp with bakelite Niko fixture. Approx. 1930, The Hague. This is a stylish pure art deco ceiling lamp with soft opal green glass screwball with round ribs flowing into a point. The stylized shape is inspired by a flower bud. The lamp is a product of The Hague firm Thabur, which used the black bakelite fixture of the Flemish company Niko from Sint Niklaas. Equipped with the original E27 lamp fitting of porcelain, bakelite and copper. This lamp is in an excellent vintage condition.

How to fix this ceiling light?

  1. Remove the glass from the fixture.
  2. View the fixture. There are two oval-shaped openings in the bottom of the luminaire.
  3. Use these openings to screw the ceiling light into the ceiling. Depending on the ceiling, plugs can be used.

Dimensions 

  • Height: ± 18 cm.
  • Diameter: ± 16 cm.
  • Year: ± 1930s.

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco-influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewellery, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners. It took its name, short for Arts Décoratifs, from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris in 1925. It combined modernist styles with fine craftsmanship and rich materials. During its heyday, Art Deco represented luxury, glamour, exuberance, and faith in social and technological progress.

Art Deco was a pastiche of many different styles, sometimes contradictory, united by a desire to be modern. From its outset, Art Deco was influenced by the bold geometric forms of Cubism; the bright colors of Fauvism and of the Ballets Russes; the updated craftsmanship of the furniture of the eras of Louis Philippe and Louis XVI; and the exotic styles of China and Japan, India, Persia, ancient Egypt and Maya art. It featured rare and expensive materials, such as ebony and ivory, and exquisite craftsmanship. The Chrysler Building and other skyscrapers of New York built during the 1920s and 1930s are monuments of the Art Deco style.

In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the Art Deco style became more subdued. New materials arrived, including chrome plating, stainless steel and plastic. A sleeker form of the style, called Streamline Moderne, appeared in the 1930s; it featured curving forms and smooth, polished surfaces. Art Deco is one of the first truly international styles, but its dominance ended with the beginning of World War II and the rise of the strictly functional and unadorned styles of modernism and the International Style of architecture that followed.


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