Introduction
I was casting about for ideas for a floor lamp, and I stumbled across this Mid-Century Modern gem. I say "stumbled" because with all the google powers I could muster, I was only able to find two sites that had example photos of the lamp (here and here) so running across even one image in the first place was fortunate.
The tripod lamp is attributed to Alder Design in Boston, MA in the 60's. I couldn't find anything about the company, and assume they went out of business long ago.
Here are some photos taken from one of the sites above:
I'm not entirely sure why it stood out to me - I guess the simple lines and the fact that it looked like something I could tackle. But it also had a couple challenging parts to hold my interest:
Sounds like a fun project to me.
I was casting about for ideas for a floor lamp, and I stumbled across this Mid-Century Modern gem. I say "stumbled" because with all the google powers I could muster, I was only able to find two sites that had example photos of the lamp (here and here) so running across even one image in the first place was fortunate.
The tripod lamp is attributed to Alder Design in Boston, MA in the 60's. I couldn't find anything about the company, and assume they went out of business long ago.
Here are some photos taken from one of the sites above:
I'm not entirely sure why it stood out to me - I guess the simple lines and the fact that it looked like something I could tackle. But it also had a couple challenging parts to hold my interest:
- I didn't want the cord to be visible, so it had to feed down the center of the three legs where they meet at the top. I think the original probably had some internal hardware holding the legs together at the top, with the bungs concealing the end of a machine screw and nut. It wasn't immediately clear how I could do that, so I would use a triangular piece of wood instead.
- The spokes that hold the legs apart at the bottom meet the triangular hub at an angle. I'd need to figure out a way to make an angled mortise in each face of the hub.
Sounds like a fun project to me.