Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Lamp Love Link: Perfect Aqua Pair

For this week's Lamp Link I'm pleased to share a pair of lamps with the trifecta (try to ignore the fact that a pair with a trifecta makes no sense) of vintage lamp appeal: they're in perfect condition, unusual, and labeled.

Royal Haeger Mid-century Lamps with original shades from ILiveModern on Etsy.

Holy buckets of disposable income, Batgirl, these are not a thrift find: $350. In my estimation, however, it's a fair price. They've got matching ceramic finials which I have NEVER seen before on lamps like these, a pretty color, original shades in perfect condition, and a label that tells us these are Royal Haeger. Some lucky, lucky person is going to have these for their Mid-century living room, and I wish them (whoever they are) much happiness with them. How could you own such beauties and not smile every time you walked past them?

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  1. Those lamps are completely amazing aren't they!

    I bought a pair of small-ish lamps (probably about the same size as the lamps in the pic) about 6 years ago. They were made out of this white Italian Alabaster on the base with fiberglass shades on the top. I hemmed and hawed at the $100 asking price, feeling like I was totally getting ripped off but bought them anyway because I loved them SO much. I guess I shouldn't feel too bad about the asking price now huh!

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    1. I did almost the exactly the same thing! About ten years ago I bought a pair of pressed glass boudoir lamps with dangly crystals and pleated shades, the whole nine yards, because they were just so over-the-top and SO girly-pretty, I had to have them. I was almost ashamed I'd spent $100 on the pair of them, and even hid them in a closet for awhile (like the credit card company wouldn't find them there? What? Ha!) But you know, as much as it tortured me then I've never regretted those lamps. :)

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