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French Brass Chandelier with Lucite Prisms Join us and enjoy the traditions of this special time of year. The Westgate Hotel celebrated its 45th anniversary as an Iconic property in Downtown San Diego on August 29, 2015!Pair of Mirrored Wall Sconces Pair of Visual Comforts Calliope Bath Sconces Pair of Crystal and Silver Leaf Sconces by Fine Arts Lamps Visual Comfort Studio Openwork Bath Wall Light Jonathan Adler Meurice 12″ High Polished Nickel Wall Sconce Pair of Mirrored Wall Sconces Originals 22 Gold Leaf and Crystal Sconce Pair Vaughan Tole & Mirror Wall Lamp Pair Currey & Co. Crystal Sconce (5 Available) Pair of Robert Abbey Chase Wall Sconces Antique Brass and Crystal Sconces Set of Four Pair of Visual Comfort Cylinder Sconces Hinson Traditional Swing Arm Brass Wall Lamp Pair Pair of E.F. Chapman Flemish 1 Light 7 inch Gilded Iron with Wax Decorative Wall Lights Pair of Visual Comfort E.F. Chapman Lund 12″ Single Sconces in Bronze with Mirror

Visual Comfort Sconce Pair Iron Swing Arm Wall Lights Set of 2 Silver Leaf 3 Candle Candelabra Sconce Vintage Gilded Wood Sconce Set of 2 Gilded Wall Candelabras Set of 2 Antique Brass Lighting Sconces with Enamel Shades Set of 4 HB Home Sconces Set of 2 Silver Plate Double Arm Sconces Pair Antique French Brass Wheat Sheaf light Sconces Set of 2 Green Wrought Iron and Brass Sconces Rust Finish Acanthis French Light Sconces Set of 2 Petite Verdigris Scroll Sconces Vintage Bronze Leaf Lighting Sconces Set of 2 French Whitewashed Wrought Iron Lighting Sconce Set of 2 Vintage Brass Rope Lighting Sconces Set of 2 Pair of E.F. Chapman Bevel Mirror Sconces in Polished Nickel Vaughan Designs Clandon Storm Wall SconesNot long ago I was on holiday in an ancient farmhouse in the Cumbrian hills in northern England. Everything about it was perfect. You could not improve the beauty of the setting, the timelessness of the ancient stone-flagged floors, and the quietly sympathetic ways in which the owners had restored the house.

The place was faultless – with one exception.On getting into the ancient, cast-iron bath on the first evening, I realised, to my horror, that I was lit by a series of recessed spotlights directly above me. The dream of the otherworldliness was broken, as I lay staring up at four white plastic spotlights, their flanges slowly turning a shade of nicotine-tar brown. Their transformers emitted a low hum that somehow brought to mind an electricity generation plant.Thankfully there was a candle on the windowsill and, even better, a box of matches next to it. I was able to adjust the lighting to my satisfaction – although am I the only one who dislikes having to get out of a hot bath that you’ve just climbed into?Moral of story: never light your life with a fixed recessed spotlight, unless you are a brain surgeon or (self-evidently) need brain surgery.Fixed lighting is not easy to get right and the path to success is perilous. Think of those strange lighting shops that infect local high streets, their ceilings bristling with a bizarre array of fake brass and stained “leaded” glass shades, of metallic plastic spotlights and hundreds upon hundreds of light fixtures, each more hideous than the next.

Who brought them into manufacture? And who, indeed, knew that a visit to a lighting shop could bring on such philosophical musings?Even in more erudite interiors, I prefer what is known as a 5-amp lighting circuit, where your table lamps are wired back to the switch, and there may be no ceiling fitting at all. This is certainly better in rooms with lower ceilings, and almost certainly in ones where you wish to sit and linger. It is never nice having the principal light source in a room dangling above you – it’s much better to be lit by lamps placed well below eye level.There are, of course, degrees of grandeur to consider and the architecture of a space. Wall lights work best in rooms where you might also hang a lantern: stairs, halls and corridors. For traditional schemes, I love silvered sconces that have the flavour of Jacobean candleholders: Robert Kime has splendidly architectural pieces reminiscent of the best 19th-century gothic while Charles Edwards has very useful examples for passages and hallways in a superb range of finishes.

For those seeking something less overtly historicist, and with a house especially of the arts and crafts or pre-Georgian variety, I have always liked the fittings designed by the architect Charles Morris for his company The English House.Do not discount picture lights, ideally in a dull brass or silvered finish, as a way to bring sparkle to the walls of a room without lights shining in your eyes – ideal for a drawing or dining room, particularly if you have pictures that are worth lighting (note: never overdo it). From time to time you will meet someone who wants to install “museum quality” picture lights where a perfectly framed spotlight emanates from a tiny pinhole in the ceiling. Not to be recommended, unless you actually want to live in a museum. A nice picture light has far more charm, and that whole business of making the spotlight the same size as the frame smacks of trying too hard.Chandeliers are an acquired taste. Is it a sign of growing up that I think a bit more about a giant cut-glass number from time to time?

A very grown up chandelier might either be metal (brass, gilt, or silver), or it might be glass, but on no account should the two be mixed unless you are a Middle Eastern dictator or Russian mining tycoon. Interiors from the 17th and early 18th century will work most beautifully with Flemish metals; later 18th and 19th-century rooms with glass, which became increasingly more lavish as the decades rolled on. Little can prepare you for a giant cranberry and claret glass extravaganza by the Osler studio in Birmingham. It would be rather wonderful to see one installed, like a museum piece, in an otherwise barest white interior.The grandest antique dealers – Mallets, Denton, Ronald Phillips in the UK – are all, of course, useful places for those who seek such grandeur. More charming examples might be found in places such as Matthew Upham at the lower end of the King’s Road in central London, where a client and I recently found a vibrant 1820s Murano glass chandelier that had lived for many years in Sicily and still dreams of the heat (sadly for it, it will hang in the green and leafy Chilterns).

Utilitarian rooms are not to be neglected. Here I favour simple, robust enamel shades; good examples can be found at ultra-chic old-fashioned hardware merchants, Labour & Wait. Or visit John Derian’s fantastic East Village emporium in New York for dreamy vintage creatures or remarkable industrial-chic creations by Robert Ogden. Thomas O’Brien’s Aero Studios on Broome Street in Manhattan is the byword for glamour; you cannot put a foot wrong there.Unless you are someone who seeks a complicated life, avoid fancy lighting control systems: a good way to waste a lot of money while simultaneously destroying both your sanity and your sex life (being able to dim the lights quickly and without fuss is, I always think, worthwhile). How many hotel rooms have you stayed in where you have no idea how to turn off the light? A client of mine recently resorted to unscrewing the light bulbs in a Four Seasons hotel. Hans Wegner (1914-2007), the celebrated Danish designer, liked to bring a sense of practicality and fun to his work, writes Kate Watson-Smyth.

The Valet chair, for example, was designed in 1951 following a conversation with an architect and a designer about the best way to fold one’s clothes at night.In a fax written in 1993 for an American exhibition called Beyond Function, Wegner wrote: “The composition comes from the way you take off and put on your clothes. The jacket you just put on the hanger and you then sit down to take off your shoes and socks. On standing to remove your trousers, the seat can be lifted to the vertical position. Under the seat is a triangular tray where you place the contents of your pockets. You then place your trousers neatly folded over the straight edge of the upturned seat. Shirt and socks are sent to be washed. In the morning, the same procedure is followed in reverse.”A four-legged Valet chair was first presented at the annual Cabinetmakers Guild exhibition in 1951, attended by the Danish King Frederik IX, who expressed interest in buying one. Wegner asked the king if he would mind waiting while he revised the design, promising him the first remodelled version.