The Lamp Shade Book: 80 Traditional and Innovative Projects to Create Exciting Lighting Effects

By Dawn Cusick

Book Overview

Bring the distinction of a stylish, finely crafted lamp into your home or office. The more than 80 lampshades featured here will inspire you to experiment. Whether you want to create from scratch or transform an old favorite into something new and beautiful, here is all the information you need. Start with assessing your decor, then follow the tips for selecting materials, construction techniques, and finishing touches. If you want to carry through a specific room design, make custom fabric shades for a unified motif. If you want to create special nighttime moods through lighting, try designs with interior shapes that are invisible during the day. Today's top interior accessory designers are showcased in a comprehensive four-color gallery, while 15 projects show you how to adapt the basics in imaginative ways. Choose from exotic origami shades, elegant Victorian styles, painted silk, raffia, crochet, and painted-glass lampshades; paper mache and stained-glass wall lights; mosaic bases; and dozens of other fabulous styles.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806981547
• ISBN13: 9780806981543
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.8" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

very useful book

this book has a lot of really good ideas for projects that are functional as well as manageable for just about anyone. It is very well illustrated and reader friendly. The author has taken a rather obscure subject and breathed life into it. She shows one how to accomplish charming effects with very little economic output and not a huge investment of time or materials. I think the writer is very creative and expresses her enthusiasm well. I wish the book were longer with a bit more information.