Blog - Category: vintage lighting

Low energy vintage light bulb out now!!!

Our 4 watt LED squirrel cage lamp Here!!! . This means all backorders will be satisfied in the next 10 days. We have both E27 and B22 cap available and have worked very hard to ensure that the decorative features of the standard filament lamp remain. The new vintage style LED we have developed replicates the intricate filament that has made the normal lamp so popular. It is also dimmable and has a life expectancy of 25,000 hours so 10 times longer than a normal light bulb. You can buy them online or from us in our Bristol store.

http://www.electricsandlighting.co.uk/products/light-bulbs/led-squirrel-...

Vintage lampholders and lighting accessories

We sell a huge range of light fitting wiring accessories, from rustic lampholders to vintage twisted cable. Don't pay retail price for vintage ighting pay wholesale. Check out our selection here. Wheather youre rewiring an old light or making your light fitting out of a bottle or a culender we have all the bits you will need. 

http://www.electricsandlighting.co.uk/product-category/lighting-wiring-accessories-0?f[0]=field_product_category%253Aparents_all%3A486

Create a classic style with Tiffany fittings

With many things in life trends seem to go full circle through out time, We feel the vast range of Tiffany fittings can tie in well to any modern home as well as keeping a classical and period home suited.

Tiffany glass refers to the many and varied types of glass developed and produced from 1878 to 1933 at the Tiffany Studios, by Louis Comfort Tiffany and a team of other designers^.

In 1865, Tiffany traveled to Europe, and in London he visited the Victoria Albert Museum, whose extensive collection of Roman and Syrian glass made a deep impression on him. He admired the coloration of medieval glass and was convinced that the quality of contemporary glass could be improved upon. In his own words, the "Rich tones are due in part to the use of pot metal full of impurities, and in part to the uneven thickness of the glass, but still more because the glass maker of that day abstained from the use of paint".

Tiffany was an interior designer, and in 1878 his interest turned towards the creation of stained glass, when he opened his own studio and glass foundry because he was unable to find the types of glass that he desired in interior decoration. His inventiveness both as a designer of windows and as a producer of the material with which to create them was to become renowned. Tiffany wanted the glass itself to transmit texture and rich colors and he developed a type of glass he called Favrile.