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| About the Mica Lamp Company |
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| Our Mica shade panels are the same natural materials
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Turn-of-the-century American lighting design and craftsmanship
is available today from the Mica Lamp Company. We follow the same formula
as the original craftsman. All our parts are made of solid copper, assembled
with hand driven copper rivets and finished with a rich natural patina.
The bottom plate of each lamp is then die struck with the Mica Lamp shop
mark.
Our Mica shade panels are the same natural materials used
by the Arts and Crafts master lampmakers. Mineral mica flakes, combined
with organic shellac, make each mica shade unique with its variations
of mineral deposit patterns and color tones.
Dirk Van Erp was the master coppersmith of the American Arts
and Crafts movement. In 1910, at his San Francisco workshop, he discovered
the warmth of copper, combined with the magical translucence of crystallized
mica mineral. Van Erp originals are highly prized by collectors.
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| All our lamps use these acorn chain pulls. |
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Other craftsman in America contributed to this design heritage,
also knows as Mission Style, that celebrate the simplicity of line, and
honest sturdy construction. In Michigan, designer Charles P. Limbert (1902–1944),
produced desk lamps utilizing a subtle furniture corbel design (curved
support) reminiscent of the Stickley Brothers mission oak furniture (New
York, 1902), and finished the shade with a decorative copper overlay.
The craftsmen at the Mica Lamp Company believe in the mission
to bring forward to our modern world the Arts and Crafts philosophy of
the unity of fine craft and function. Each copper lamp is created in an
effort to contribute to the rich heritage of hands-on craftsmanship and
fine American design that is as soothing today as it was 100 years ago…
and on into the new millennium.
Own a part of an authentic American tradition.
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