| It's happening again. The styles and fashions that we | | | | to how funky you want to make the lamp shade with |
| thought we'd seen the last of a decade ago are | | | | options of trimmings, tassels or prints to bring out your |
| re-emerging as the latest thing in chic design and | | | | retro preference. |
| people are going mad for it. In fact, one of interior | | | | The great thing about deciding on a retro lamp is that if |
| furnishings mainstays throughout the eras has been | | | | you don't particularly like the look of the traditional |
| the humble lamp and while bench surfaces, chairs, | | | | lamps from the era, you also have the more |
| lounges and most other room items have gone | | | | space-aged looking lamps that were inspired by the |
| through drastic changes, many of the retro lamps that | | | | exuberance of the post-war optimism. New products |
| emerged in the 1950s and 60s are still preferred today. | | | | such as melamine spattered with chrome and designs |
| The great thing about decorating in retro style is that | | | | that were sleek and sophisticated combined to |
| almost anything goes, as long as it is fun, combines | | | | produce a very forward thinking look. |
| shapes and colors and looks unique. Floor lamps such | | | | The great thing about using the vintage retro lamps |
| as the Arco lamp that reaches from one side of the | | | | that your parents loved is that the burnt orange lamp |
| reading chair to the other still looks appropriate, as | | | | shades or the avocado ceramic lamp stand is now |
| does the square lampshade on a wooden pedestal | | | | cool again because, well because it's retro. |
| base. From there it's up to your own discerning eye as | | | | |