lig1ting & hardware

lighting was upgraded as technology changed, so you don’t necessarily have to stick to the original period of your house. Colonial styles dating from before 1820, even if available electrified, include patinated copper lanterns, chandeliers with “candle tapers,” onion lamps, and mirrored sconces. Gaslight-era is another name for late-Victorian period lighting, usually electrified in reproduction, including designs adapted from fixtures that would have burned gas (shades face up rather than down). Arts & Crafts lighting of the period 1890 to 1925 has allusions from English medieval to Asian-inspired Californian. Such “bungalow-era” lighting includes Cotswold style, art glass and mica, hammered copper, and Mission sconces. Electric-era designs come in styles Colonial Revival to Sputnik.

HARDWARE STYLES repeat in cycles. The 1910s and ’20s saw such revivals as crystal and glass doorknobs, and hammered iron entry sets. By the 1930s, rustic black