This week we’re #tbt-ing additional lighting from our Victorian “Gaslamp by Primelite” series. Featured in a Primelite’s 1970s catalog, these fixtures reflected the last century’s fascination with Victorian styling. Our Gaslamps captured the spirit, and feeling, of the old-time lighting. Updated with modern materials and finishes, the series was available in Old English Brass, Antique Gold, Antique White, as well in special antique finishes. The Gaslamp series featured old-skool glass globes and shades in updated colors. You can be sure these Gaslamps brightened many homes, restaurants, offices, dens and basement playrooms.
Scan of original “Gaslamp by Primelite” catalog page.
This week we’re #tbt-ing our Victorian “Gaslamp by Primelite” series from the 1970s. Reflecting the last century’s fascination with Victorian styling, our Gaslamps captured the spirit, and feeling, of the old-time lighting. Updated with modern materials and finishes, the series was available in Old English Brass, Antique Gold, Antique White, as well in special antique finishes. The Gaslamp series featured old-skool glass globes and shades in updated colors. You can be sure these Gaslamps stylishly illuminated many homes, restaurants, offices, dens and basement playrooms.
This week we’re #tbt-ing some of our hanging pendants from a 1970s catalog. Reflecting the styles of the time, these “OPTILITES” earned their name from their Satin White “Optic” Glass Globes. Available in Polished Brass or Satin Flemish finishes, these fixtures featured glass globes in diameters of 6, 8 and 10 inches.You can be sure these globes brightened many homes, restaurants and offices throughout the decade.
Here is a scan of the original catalog page featuring the Optilite series.
This week we’re #tbt-ing this cool light from a 1970s catalog. Reflecting the fabulous styles of the time, with it’s dark stained wood and colored glass cutouts, this light brought its groovy goodness to dens, game rooms and wood paneled basements everywhere.
#tbtPrimelite: While researching our collection of antique Primelite catalogs we’ve come across original black and white photographs featuring some of our early lighting fixtures. The photos are stunning and we’ll be sharing these photos in our weekly #tbtPrimelite series.
This week we are highlighting a hanging fixture from our “Scintillating Cracked Glass Globe” series from the 1960s. Always popular, these fixtures definitely reflect the styles of the time with globes available in crystal, topaz, tangerine and lime! Available finishes included “Satin Flemish” and Polished Brass. “Scintillating” indeed!
Composite photo: photo scans of 1960’s catalog pages
For this weeks #tbtPrimelite we’re highlighting a 1970s Primelite catalog page featuring our “Spanish “D” Lights” Series of pendant & ceiling lights. Original designed in-house and manufactured of wrought iron in our Freeport, NY warehouse, these fixtures were available in some of the most fashionable 1970 colors, including avocado, mustard, earth brown, apple green and burnt orange. Very popular at the time, these fixtures were the height of 1970s suburban home and kitchen elegance!
Our #then&now this week compares our 1970s “Spanish ‘D’ Lights” with Primelite’s current Globe Pendant series. Sleek and modern, our globes are available in clear, smoke and opal and in round, ellipsoid, cube and deco-inspired shapes. (catalog B / page 6A)
#then&now 1970s vs 2015 Primelite Ceiling PendantsOriginal Primelite 1970 Catalog Page Featuring the “Spanish “D” Lights” series
#tbtPrimelite: While combing through the Primelite archives, we came across a series of original black and white photographs from our 1960 catalogs. Among the photos were these metallic ceiling fixtures. The brass bases came with silver, brass and chrome accented canopies. With space-age estethics and a 1960s modern design, this fixtures would still be at home in any contemporary retro installation.
#tbtPhoto: Enjoy the scan of the original photograph.
#tbtPrimelite: Primelite’s flashback this week highlights our “Glamour Globes” series from the 1970s. Heavily influenced by the disco era, these fun globes were constructed of polycarbonate and embedded with crackle chips, within the globes, creating the metallic finish shown. Available in the “de rigueur” colors of the time, including green, gold, blue, red, and white. These globes were, and still are, the definition of “cool”!
#then&now: Contrasting our Primelite globe fixtures from 1970s and 2015.
Globes have always been one of Primelite’s most popular styles of lighting. But did you know globes are no longer just round? Today Primelite offers globes in many shapes; including cube, ellipsoid, “deco”, and round. While the colorful “Glamour Globe” series is no longer available, we do offer our globes in opal, smoke and clear. Materials range from glass, acrylic, polyethene, polycarbonate and are available in sizes from 6″ to 36″*.
Our globe selections work in stylish interiors as well as in all types of commercial locations; office buildings, retail spaces and restaurants, to outdoor utilitarian situations including the post lights used in parks, parking lots and street lighting. Primelite globes have even appeared in magazines, television and movies.
So whatever, and wherever, your lighting needs are, Primelite’s globes can fit your project and budget.
Primelite 1970s catalog page featuring the Glamour Globe” series.
* Not all shapes are available in all materials or colors. Consult our catalog or office for specific availability.
#tbtPrimelite: While combing through the Primelite archives, we came across a series of original black and white photographs from our 1960 catalogs. Among the photos was this brass “pull down” or “pulley” pendant. A true representative of the space-age estethic of the time. With a 1960s modern design, this “pull-down” fixture would be at home in any contemporary retro installation.
#tbtPhoto: Enjoy the scan of the original photograph.
#tbtPrimelite: While combing through the Primelite archives, we came across a series of original black and white photographs from our 1960 catalogs. Among the photos was this wood and brass pendant. A true representative of the brass and wood stylings of the time. With a 1960s modern esthetic, this fixture would be at home in any contemporary retro installation.
#tbtPhoto: Enjoy the scan of the original photograph.
#tbtPrimelite: Scan of original 1960s photograph (Primelite catalog)
