Cutest Shade Ever

The question that I am asked most often in the Restored Antiques Department is, “Where do you get all this stuff?”  The answer is simple – everywhere.  When I first started working in this department I quickly realized that my little corner of our factory held an incredible collection of antique lights.  Looking through the racks sometimes feels like looking through history- not only the history of lighting, but also our company’s history.  Some of these fixtures were purchased in the early days and have been waiting for the perfect piece or shade to complete the fixture, others have been purchased by Nigel and our salvage department here in Portland.  Typically I know what is coming, but sometimes Nigel sends over items that I don’t know about.  These are my favorite surprises – it’s like opening the most amazing presents every week.  One day a box was delivered from Nigel and when I opened it, I saw the most adorable tiny metal shade ever (thanks Nigel).  I think it took me all of five minutes to run upstairs to the product development team  holding this tiny shade in my hands asking them to please reproduce this cutest shade ever…

Lucky for me, they did.  Our reproduction of this little shade  is fantastic and comes in several painted and metal finishes.  As great as this new little shade is, sometimes it is fun to have the chance to mix sizes, shapes and the roughness of the old enamel fixtures with these little guys.  Now is the opportunity to take a look at an awesome group of Restored Antique enamel fixtures in the New Arrivals Section of our Restored Antiques.  Most of these fixtures still have the original porcelain enamel finish and some that we did just for fun.

I hope that you take a look and enjoy this grouping as much as I enjoyed compiling it.  -Amy