Apartment foo-nishing

[SkinnyGoomba]

Fontana Arte 2198

 

[GreenFrog]

What are people's thoughts on the banker's lamp? I really like it.

 

[Fuuma]

Ok, good use of bookshelves:

Greenfrog: only usable in certain environments, honestly you'll probably find it jarring unless you already have some sort of thick, dark wood desk with no traces of modernity.

 

[Find Finn]

They are great if you live in a 1950's bank.

 

[Fuuma]



Does anyone know a place where I can buy good, simple table lamps? My only real criterion is a white/cream lampshade which diffuses light nicely. I don't care if it's contemporary or trad, just want something simple and high quality.

I have this in white and really love it.

http://www.luceplan.com/Prodotti/1/2/138/Fortebraccio

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

For greeny:

 

[Loathing]



They are great if you live in a 1950's bank.

Stupid thing to say.

 

[Loathing]



Fontana Arte 2198

Thanks for this suggestion: it's basically what I'm looking for, but I don't like it's base, either in colour or in form.

 

[Loathing]



I have this in white and really love it.

http://www.luceplan.com/Prodotti/1/2/138/Fortebraccio

Thanks, but I did say table lamp, not desk lamp.

 

[Find Finn]

They are great if you live in a 1950's bank.

Stupid thing to say.

Oh really..... please enlighten me why your opinion is more valid than mine.

Also you haven't said what you think, only passed judgment.

 

[Loathing]

1. The lamp was designed in 1909 and was widely popular until the '70s, and it's still very common in England and the East Coast of the USA. So I don't know where you got the '50s from.
2. There is nothing intrinsic about the lamp which makes it more useful for a banker, or less useful for home use.
3. Indeed, tens of millions of these lamps have been produced, and even a child's understanding of statistics would tell you that the vast majority of them have not been used in banks.
4. And indeed, the name "banker's lamp" probably wasn't coined until recently. They are called "lawyer's lamps" in England.
5. Finally, and most importantly, it is functionally a very effective design as a task light and the high-quality ones look perfectly attractive. So your snarky little joke, "it would be a great choice if you lived in a 1950s bank, hehehahahaueauh", is completely ******* irrelevant stupid ****.

 

[sugarbutch]

It's good to see that the fighting spirit of this thread lives on...

 

[Bounder]



2. There is nothing intrinsic about the lamp which makes it more useful for a banker, or less useful for home use.
3. Indeed, tens of millions of these lamps have been produced, and even a child's understanding of statistics would tell you that the vast majority of them have not been used in banks.
4. And indeed, the name "banker's lamp" probably wasn't coined until recently. They are called "lawyer's lamps" in England.

Wait until he hears about polo shirts.

 

[Find Finn]



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1. The lamp was designed in 1909 and was widely popular until the '70s, and it's still very common in England and the East Coast of the USA. So I don't know where you got the '50s from.
2. There is nothing intrinsic about the lamp which makes it more useful for a banker, or less useful for home use.
3. Indeed, tens of millions of these lamps have been produced, and even a child's understanding of statistics would tell you that the vast majority of them have not been used in banks.
4. And indeed, the name "banker's lamp" probably wasn't coined until recently. They are called "lawyer's lamps" in England.
5. Finally, and most importantly, it is functionally a very effective design as a task light and the high-quality ones look perfectly attractive. So your snarky little joke, "it would be a great choice if you lived in a 1950s bank, hehehahahaueauh", is completely ******* irrelevant stupid ****.

WOW, someone got the wrong leg out of bed this morning and haven't had enough sugar.

It was a stylistic reference that you clearly didn't get, I could have said law firm, library etc. etc. or said the exact same thing as Fuuma did, which in essence was the same thing.

 

[CDFS]



1. The lamp was designed in 1909 and was widely popular until the '70s, and it's still very common in England and the East Coast of the USA. So I don't know where you got the '50s from.
2. There is nothing intrinsic about the lamp which makes it more useful for a banker, or less useful for home use.
3. Indeed, tens of millions of these lamps have been produced, and even a child's understanding of statistics would tell you that the vast majority of them have not been used in banks.
4. And indeed, the name "banker's lamp" probably wasn't coined until recently. They are called "lawyer's lamps" in England.
5. Finally, and most importantly, it is functionally a very effective design as a task light and the high-quality ones look perfectly attractive. So your snarky little joke, "it would be a great choice if you lived in a 1950s bank, hehehahahaueauh", is completely ******* irrelevant stupid ****.

Is there a comma missing, in this comment?