Caldwell Pair of Silvered and Doré Bronze Neoclassic Lamps

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Caldwell, a pair of doré and silvered bronze tripod form floor lamps on conforming marble bases. The seven-armed candelabra are carried on neoclassic urns decorated with rams' heads and laurel wreath swags. Caldwell and Co. were America's greatest designers and manufacturers of decorative metal items and lighting. Founded in 1895 by Edward F. Caldwell and Victor von Lossberg, the firm would go on to do homes for the Gilded Age's greatest oligarchs, including various Vanderbilts, Morgans and Fricks. The Harvard Club, the Flatiron Building and Rockefeller Center are a small part of their legacy. There are so many projects in America and abroad that they are far too numerous to mention. However they all have one thing in common, an absolute dedication to producing the finest works of art. The company's designers drew on centuries of European and Oriental design traditions combining motifs from the 15th century with others selected from the 16th through 20th centuries. Their early championing of the Art Deco style allowed them to become the pre-eminent designers and craftsmen working in this style. One only has to visit Rockefeller center to see their supreme mastery of this style. Their staff of designers and craftsmen made objects finer than had been created since the Renaissance, when bronze makers like Michaelangelo, Donatello and DaVinci set the standards very high. The chasers, chasers and gilders reached back in time to rediscover lost techniques, and improved existing ones, like the lost wax method. This allowed the artisans to recreate the finest imaginations of the artist's mind, to rise from the void and be made real to the astonishment of the beholder. Their techniques were so highly developed, they could probably have cast the breath of God if the opportunity had arisen. Our lamps are great examples of Caldwell's ability to bend molten bronze to their will, and we are all the better for it. To remind, the lamps are 65 x 15 and have been recently rewired.

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