I seem to have this thing for lamps. As soon as I see one at auction, I head over to it to check it out, especially if it has a unique or interesting form. Sometimes, the ingenuity and strangeness of a lamp grabs me.
I have written several blog posts over the past few years about the more exciting and unusual ones I’ve come across. The figural lamp with the ethnic face and basket-weave shade (the only one I actually bought). The lamp with orange goldfish swimming around its base that I considered garish (a reader wrote to tell me that he and others collected those lamps). A gaudy lamp that was just plain ugly, and a blue lamp with the same distinction. A lamp in search of itself. A gumball machine lamp.
I don’t think it’s just me, because the lamps I wrote about came out of other people’s houses . So, most folks have a thing for lamps, too. We don’t just buy lamps to light our houses; we buy them to help decorate them.
Some folks don’t even bother to buy them. They just make their own, and those, too, find their way to the auction tables. Some of them are among the lamps that I found cool, different and eccentric. I’d like to share them with you.
