The color of the wall

We had finally been inspired by a small hurricane candle holder that we found at an antique store. We had been searching for the perfect color for about 2 weeks, actually from the day we met. The floor in our family room is a warm wood, and the walls are “eggshell white”, all topped off with wooden beam ceilings, possible of Oakwood. The furniture in the room is a cherry wood, table and 3 dining chairs, a coffee table, framed chair with white leather seat cushions and two golden accented lamps, one floor and one table. Both elegant.

The first was part of a myriad of furniture I inherited from my grandmother, most pieces of which I’d say is over 40 years old, I want to say that it is from the 1960’s. I have been studying World War II and its effects on the designs of domestic middle class America household items. As somewhat an offset of the Industrial Revolution, due to the fact that these technologies were not able to be celebrated by the masses, as World War I broke out in the onset of the 20th century soon followed by the Great Depression. The sense of patriotism that pulsed on the home front during WWII helped lighten the hearts of returning troops back home, to the States. I see the movement of the 60’s that occurred could be represented in the material used, the finish seeming like either brass or gold flakes, very elegant, while using modern technology to utilize this material. It may reference Baroque in the intricate detail of the base, which looks like it is on a pedestal. The lampshade makes me thing of the Bauhaus.

I’d imagine that parents who were raising teenagers in this era would have a more formal taste, having seen the prosperous era that WWII brought them into. A hopeful, sense of pride and propriety in life was omnipresent to the middle aged housewife, present in her choice of living room lamp fixture.