Whenever I start to feel even remotely content with my own creative capabilities, I like to browse at The Artful Home, just to indulge in a semi-masochistic spate of envy and avarice. Today’s objet of shameless desire is the mixed media table lamp known as “Alexandra,” created by Carin Kinzig and Susan Kinzig.
First off, there’s the shimmering opalescence of the blown glass base… the swirling lines as it moves up the ultra-feminine pedestal… but really, it’s the graceful confidence of the asymmetrical shade that really gets to me…
This lamp is just like that woman (that woman!) who can toss on a Victorian piano shawl and a scrap of cargo netting over her yoga gear, and knock ’em dead at a posh gallery opening. Only, you know, with a 60-watt bulb…