HOUSE AND GARDEN 
January, 
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ration, but is more old English in form. This 
may be used in all rooms, and is in as good taste 
in the bedroom as in the living-room or dining-room. 
The design shown is one of the very few that can 
with good taste be used in this general way, no mat¬ 
ter what the style of architecture or furnishings. 
The Colonial fixtures modeled after old English 
lamps are appropriate for the Colonial living-room 
and the more important rooms of the house. The 
graceful curves follow the quaint lines of the Colo¬ 
nial whale-oil lamps, which were made with bronze 
or glass bowl. 
The severe English type is suited to any style of 
home room, but is especially satisfactory with old 
English decorations, where the dark wood paneled 
walls give such a feel¬ 
ing of simple elegance. 
Old Flemish fixtures 
are also used to splen¬ 
did advantage in an 
old-style English room. 
There are more crys¬ 
tal drops used in fix¬ 
tures designed for 
Louis XVI rooms than 
for any other period; 
they are used ten times in French 
rooms to once in any other 
style. The crystals give a beauti¬ 
ful prismatic radiance which can 
be secured in no other way. Can¬ 
dle fixtures, too, are distinctly 
French, and unsuited to a room 
furnished in heavy styles. They are 
permissible, however, with Italian 
furnishings, and especially in the 
Colonial silver finish. These fix¬ 
tures are most unusual, and come in 
old Sheffield forms adapted to the 
uses of today, from $7 to $300 each 
for single brackets. Where the 
surrounding decorations predomi¬ 
nate in the Italian style of design, carved wooden fixtures are 
also freely used. The prices vary little from the metal, except in 
the case of elaborate carvings. The wooden fixtures are usually 
heavily gilt. The French, as well as the Italian, admits of the heav¬ 
ily carved mirror 
between two candle 
fixtures, the whole 
covered with an¬ 
tique gilding. In 
speaking of candle 
lights, it is well to 
remember that they 
provide only about 
one-half the illumi¬ 
nation produced by 
the ordinary electric 
lamp and bracket 
of common size 
and candle power. 
It is extremely 
hazardous to give 
even a suggestion 
of the cost of fix¬ 
tures, as there are 
so many peculiari- 
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Carved wood brackets finished in dull 
gilt are competing with brass 
If candle brackets are used remember 
that they give very little light 
In planning your lighting 
equipment do not forget a 
distinctive porch lantern 
A simple and adequate bracket that may be 
bought for about $12 
ties to be met with, and the 
range of price is almost infinite. 
A single wall fixture of charac¬ 
ter cannot be secured for less 
than $6, while double brackets 
cost a third more, and the price 
varies for different styles up to 
$300. Brass, which is in most 
general use, is perhaps most 
reasonable. Then comes bronze 
with its various finishes and the 
Colonial silver, and gold-plated 
types heading the list. 
While considering cost it is 
well to remember that in out- 
-of-the-way places or rooms 
seldom seen there is a chance to 
economize and save the lighting 
appropriation 
for the most fre¬ 
quented parts of 
the house. The 
pantry and kitch¬ 
en, for instance, 
may be furnish¬ 
ed with a drop 
cord, or the bulb 
may be screwed 
direct to the wall 
socket. 
The location of 
fixtures is by no 
means an unim¬ 
portant detail, 
and one in which 
it is well to em¬ 
ploy expert ad¬ 
vice from com¬ 
petent sources. 
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page 52) 
An adaptation of a Colonial 
lamp pattern with prisms 
Prism fixtures are suitable for many rooms 
and give a play of light in the pendants 
