[It's been a minute, but we're still around. More activity over on Instagram, but this post is "blog worthy" due to its length and links. This is a project that has been in the "need to finish" queue for a while and I had to do a repair on our own lamp this weekend, so I finished this off.]
One of the more unusual things in our house is this awesome sculpture/lamp/shade called the "Ventana" by Pablo Pardo. The design is about 20 years old and it's long out of production — it was featured at ICFF in 2002. This larger size retailed originally for about $1200 + tax — crazy, right?
We were able to pick one up for ourselves years ago (we even had it in West Oakland) and we love it. Many year later, we came across a pair of lamps for sale and we snatched them up. They were incomplete, but I figured I could remake them into something close to the originals... and this is the result:
[The Ventana lamp is both a shade and a light (and a sculpture) — it's amazing.]
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