Although I don't know about the institutional look as your friend suggested, I'd like it without the "hour glass" beneath the chain. As if the designer had a good idea but didn't know when to stop.

Oh, I like it! Where will it go? I think it fits your home nicely, and I like the hourglass, too.

Sorry, OT academic rant: OSH, this book will NOT GO AWAY. I now have to renumber all the darn endnotes, by chapter, and then go through each chapter replacing the automatic-endnote Microsoft Word does with an individual superscript number. I think I am going to throw myself, or the manuscript, off a bridge. Will I ever see my children again? Will I ever create my syllabi for my spring courses?

Organic, can you show us what room this lamp will go in and then I can decide if it works. It is pretty but will not look wonderful in every style room.

I must get sleep but I will look for this post tomorrow.

Thanks for the feedback you guys. I guess I'll have to think about this one.

walkin: Yeah--but YOUR BOOK'S GONNA' BE PUBLISHED!!!!

On another note: I don't even want to think about spring syllabi for AT LEAST another week. :)

I'll be honest - it kind of looks like a conglomeration of different lamp pieces to me. The angular hourglass doesn't seem to belong to the round shade, and the finial doesn't seem the right style, either. The glass parts say more art deco, the finial piece more classic traditional.

Love the color of the glass tho, especially when the light is on.

I absolutely fell in love with this light fixture

What do you think?

I think that's all that really matters ;-)

Suits your home nicely.

Lighting is so artistic, it doesn't matter why anyone doesn't like specific design elements of a fixture. Would you reconsider a painting because someone said they didn't like the colors? (hope not!)

It's different -- I like it! It does not remind me of a school at all...it's way too sophisticated for that.

Which room were you thinking and when was your house built?

Looks Art Deco to me too. I especially love the way it lights, and the bowl is gorgeous!

I like it. It's different and really pretty. Without the hourglass, it would look just like a regular lamp from home depot.

I also don't think it looks like it belongs in a school. Course, I've been eyeing up some institutional/schoolhouse lighting for my own house, so maybe I'm not the best person to ask!

I think your friend must have gone to a very classy school! Seriously, our memories and associations are so very individual. Two gals can sit on a park bench and some guy walks by. The first gal thinks he's real cute and the second says he doesn't do a thing for her. It can be because of something like he has a nose like the first gal's brother whom she adores (but she doesn't recognize this in him when she sees him) and he walks like a guy who used to always be rude to the second gal (but she doesn't recognize this in him either).

Our subconscious minds are always making associations and we're not aware of it. So maybe your friend was looking at a light that was vaguely like that when a teacher was yelling at her some time -- or maybe she saw it on TV in an old movie just when the villain walked in. Who knows? And if we have memories from past lives in there somewhere, all bets are really off.

I think THIS was the most typical school house light, although someone is calling THIS a schoolhouse light and I never saw one that fancy (how cute with the painting on it!).

The fixture is soooo Art Deco and would be perfect for you. There are many similar shaped ones (thogh yours is unique) on eBay, and people are fighting to get them:

1930'S ART DECO CEILING LIGHT CHANDELIER HOBNAIL SHADE

I think the important thing is that YOU love it. You're the one who is going to be living with it. If you surround yourself with things that make you happy, your life will be happier. But if it helps, I think it's a neat fixture. I love the bowl on it.

I was expecting the fixture to be a schoolhouse fixture and was prepared to say "duh!" But no, it's a custard glass deco pendant.

I've looked at a TON of deco lighting (I'm still looking for the right chandelier for the shades I have for my kitchen) and I wouldn't think at all that that fixture is a conglomeration of different lamp pieces. Traditional finials show up all the time on deco lights.

I agree that the custard shade is really gorgeous and I like the funky shape of the rest of it. I believe the hourglass is also custard glass from how translucent it looks when the bowl is lit. Personally, I really like it. Very cool, but similar enough to other deco fixtures that you know what it is but kind of funky as well (you don't normally see that hourglass motif). Then again I'm a ho for lit glass effects. :)

I think the fixture is great. I don't think it looks like a schoolhouse lamp. The hour glass makes the light interesting.

I am partial to art deco these days. I love to watch Turner Classic movies just for the furnishings.

I think it will be stunning in your home.