so last week i shared these amazing bulbs and vintage fixtures etsy shop trampoline put together. and this week, i went out and got some edison, or often called filament bulbs for myself. i had a couple of vintage bedside lamps hanging around with some sad looking shades on them, so i threw off the shades and let them run bare! i love the way they look! they sit upon my vintage... 
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i have finally, finally hung my patrick townsend white orbit chandelier. i’ve only had this collecting dust in my garage for, oh, a year or so. i loved this pendant lamp at first site when i saw it hanging in the curiosity shoppe — but for some reason i just couldn’t pull the trigger on whether i should hard wire it to the ceiling, or hang it with the cord... 
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oooh, this is one good giveaway! modernica is playing santa this season and hosting a sponsored giveaway for sfgirlbybay readers! modernica is the licensed distributor of george nelson bubble lamps, and they are giving one away one beautiful mid-century modern bubble pendant lamp to one happy reader! NOTE: COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED. we’ll announce the winner next week!... 
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i fell in love with this lamp. is it not spectacular? i saw it on a yatzer tour of designer Azzedine Alaïa’s home. he himself designed all the interiors, you should go look. for now, i’m just gonna light this candle, cuddle up with ferm’s living’s lovely blanket and lay around and covet this lamp. • top photo © Alexandre & Emilie, Persona production.  
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okay, so all of a sudden it came to me just how to hang the task lamp. maybe it was just as easy as this along. i hung the task lamp from the photograph above my bed, and i kinda love it. the cord is black, so it blends well with the benjamin moore gravel gray paint color, and it doesn’t fight with the gold gilded wall sconces, and it feels just about right. and, i can... 
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