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This year, we’re spreading the holiday glow with an Artisan Fair in each of our stores. It’s an opportunity to celebrate American handcraft, and the local artists who bring beauty and great design into our everyday lives.
At our Berkeley store, the Artisan Fair is on Saturday, November 10th, from 10AM to 5PM. Check out Rejuvenation’s assortment of seasonal gifts and decorations, and peruse handcrafted products from a select group of Bay Area artists: birdhouses made from recycled materials, handmade felted home décor pieces, hard-to-find vintage European posters, and architectural tile works. If you’re looking for a present that’s really a keeper, chances are you’ll find it here.
You can also enter for a chance to win one of Rejuvenation’s new, iconic Mid-Century Modern Blenko table lamps, and get an up-close look at our authentic reissues of legendary O.C. White Industrial lamps.
We’re sure the fair will be a good time, but it also does good, too: 10% of artists’ sales from this event will be donated to Berkeley Food and Housing Project, our Berkeley charitable partner.
Artisans:
Berkeley Birdhouses handmade birdhouses made from recycled materials
Vintage European Posters – the finest original vintage posters from 1880-1960
Papaver Vert – contemporary felted home decor
Jo Bauen Tile – Architectural mosaics inspired by nature
“Awesome,” “Yay,” and “Hip hip hooray” are just a few of the exclamations we let loose when we heard that Rejuvenation was included in This Old House Magazine’s “The Best New Home Products of 2012″ list.
It’s the third year in a row our fixtures have appeared on this esteemed list. In 2010, TOH honored the Hood, a classic globe chandelier, and in 2011 they honored the Gemini, a versatile Mid-Century Modern wall bracket.
In 2012, the product that clinched our position was the Independence, a transitional Arts & Crafts wall sconce we first saw in a 1907 catalogue. While many may think Arts & Crafts is all straight lines and boxy corners, this piece shows off a softer side of the movement with its fluid profile and distinctive whip detail.
This Old House winner, the Independence wall sconce
According to This Old House Magazine, the winners are selected as “the result of an exhaustive search for the most forward thinking, relevant, and necessary new home products out there.” We couldn’t be happier to join such august company, and look forward to how we’ll top ourselves next year.
This year, we’re spreading the holiday glow with an Artisan Fair in each of our stores. It’s an opportunity to celebrate American handcraft, and the local artists who bring beauty and great design into our everyday lives.
In Los Angeles, the Artisan Fair takes place on Sunday, November 4th, from 11AM to 5PM. In addition to shopping Rejuvenation’s assortment of unique holiday gifts, you can explore an eclectic mix of handcrafted pieces including refined ceramics, small-scale sculpture, classic stoneware, custom candles, and California-inspired paintings. Meet the artists and find truly original, one-of-a kind gifts for friends and family members (or perhaps, yourself).
You’ll also have the chance to enter to win one of our brand new Mid-Century Modern Blenko Cylinder table lamps. And from 2PM to 5PM, Joanne Palmisano, author of Salvage Secrets, will present a do-it-yourself ornament demonstration and sign copies of her book.
We’re expecting November 4th to be a fun and festive event that supports not just local artisans, but our community, too: 10% of artists’ sales from this event will be donated to PATH, People Assisting the Homeless, Rejuvenation’s Los Angeles charitable partner.
Featured Artisans:
Masuo Ojima
Wendy Brazill
Adrienne Keiko Lee
Daniel Alonzo
Bauer Pottery
Stone Candles
Rejuvenation salvage buyer Trisha Anderson reports on Serving Up Style, an annual Portland design event.
On October 6, Portland hosted Serving Up Style, an annual event to benefit Molly’s Fund Fighting Lupus.
Each year, prominent design teams are invited to create fantastic, stunning, and whimsical dining environments for a four-day showcase during the Portland Fall Home & Garden Show. Serving Up Style culminates with a fundraiser gala, auction, and awards ceremony. The rules are simple: each design group gets a 12′ x 16′ space with a concrete floor and away you go!
Rejuvenation’s Moravian Star Shades hang above the salvage table,
and a pair of Blenko glass lamps adorn the buffet
This was Rejuvenation’s third year participating in the event, and the second year my design firm, Abode Design, partnered with Rejuvenation to create a space. The inspiration for this year’s design came the instant I saw Rejuvenation’s new Blenko glass lamps (available in early November). The colors, the shades, and their sheer scale got my creative juices flowing.
The room, entitled “Boho Artistry,” was created around the idea of curated space – how one expresses their personal history through the interior design of their home. The back story came together quickly: Our space would represent a 1960s artist loft, the home of a traveler and eclectic collector.
A paint-covered salvage table, vintage “origami” chairs, layered rugs from Kush Handmade Rugs, a striking salvage Moroccan chandelier, and pendants dressed in Rejuvenation’s Moravian Star Shades all came together in a room that told the artist’s story. Best of all, Pacific Northwest artist Jennifer Ament installed her amazing handmade prints on the wall. They provided the final authentic brush stroke!
We were so glad to be able to help Molly’s Fund by participating in this event. Houzz readers were pretty excited, too: Boho Artistry been added to nearly 900 ideabooks!
“Well, it’s been hanging in that bedroom as long as Grandma’s been alive, so it must be original, right?”
Native to the rooms in older houses where we get our beauty sleep, the fixture species in question here is usually spotted with a softly tinted decorative bowl shade of thick pressed glass. Sometimes suspended with three little bead chains, sometimes via a post through a hole in its center, these lights are so common that it can seem like they’ve always lived there… But unless your house was built after about 1935, these fixtures are newcomers that displaced older lights long out of style.
Here we’ll trace the history of these popular fixtures and their distinctive bead-chain and center-hole pressed glass shades – a history that spans the two decades between 1935 and 1955, when countless thousands of these lights were hung in homes across the country, new and old.
This collection of fixtures from 1933 to 1935 show early bead-chain and center-post forms, as manufacturers experimented with ways to make close-to-the-ceiling lights that would illuminate a whole room with just one or two bulbs. (Rejuvenation archives)
By 1936, the new concept of suspending a shade from a series of three small bead chains inserted through holes in the glass (or metal) began to spread widely. These fixtures were aimed squarely at the bedroom market, as this selection from a Moe Brothers catalog shows. (Rejuvenation archives)
Sears is always a great barometer of style trends, rarely being early on a fad, but also rarely coming in too late. While their 1936 Lightmaster catalog featured no real bead-chain or center-post fixtures, their 1937 selection above did – including bead-chain shades hung on porcelain bases at the lower right. (Rejuvenation archives)
That’s a lot of catalog pictures, but we couldn’t resist – Jeannette Shade & Novelty Co. of Jeannette, Pennsylvania made a name for themselves with a broad line of classic bead-chain and center-post shades (these are from around 1938) that were widely distributed. (Rejuvenation archives)
While bead-chain shades were smaller and mostly used in bedrooms and other less formal spaces, by the end of the 1930s a strong demand had developed for larger and more elaborate center-post shades for use in living rooms and dining rooms, like these from Gill Glass & Fixture Co. in 1940 and Grahling Bros. in 1941. (Rejuvenation archives)
A selection of colorful bead-chains and center-posts from J.C. Virden in 1940 shows the typical use of soft tints, clear and painted glass, and both metal and metal/glass combinations on shades. (Rejuvenation archives)
Montgomery Ward certainly didn’t let Sears have all the fun –this 1941 spread captures the spirit and character of bead-chain fixtures as they were marketed for the modern bedroom, including “Wards Most Popular Bedroom Design.” (Rejuvenation archives)
“Why not replace those out-moded bedroom fixtures of yesteryears with your selection of one of these up-to-the-minute designs.”
These two spreads from 1942 – Beautilites from Lightolier and “Restful Bedroom Lighting” from J.C. Virden give a feel for the pre-war moment when the popularity of bead-chain and center-post shades was at its peak. (Rejuvenation archives)
Following the interruption of the war, economic recovery took a while and industry had to shift from military production back to the consumer market. When manufacturers like Moe Light did issue new catalogs, their offering was pretty much right where things had left off back in 1942. (Rejuvenation archives)
Porcelier’s all-porcelain fixtures in 1949 were a stylish and economical alternative during a period when manufacturers were still limited by materials shortages due to the war. The designs here are typical of the tastes of the day – traditional decorative patterns and vague ornamental motifs not directly related to any specific historical style or time period. The very early thin, bent-glass shade at the upper left is a hint at things to come. (Rejuvenation archives)
This 1954 spread from Sears has one foot in the past and one foot in the future (and one foot in the “novelty” kitsch, if you can have three feet) – perfectly capturing the competing trends of the early Mid-Century era. The widespread adoption of thin, bent-glass shades like at the upper right would put an end to pressed glass shades. (Rejuvenation archives)
These pages from Moe Light in 1955 herald the triumph of the new decorated bent-glass shades – there’s not a piece of pressed glass to be seen. They’ve tried to adapt bent glass to a bead-chain form at the upper right, but the writing was on the wall, and it said…
“Let’s just forget about pressed glass bead-chain and center-post shades for a generation or two, until your grandkids grow up and re-discover their sweet and charming style anew…”
