Oh hellloooooo, best Goodwill find ever.
Ya ya, I know everyone and their blog are all about midcentury arc lamps since like 2012, but I can’t get over how much I love them: they’re just so clean. And elegant. And timeless and lovely and chic and et cetera et cetera. I’ve always wanted one, but I have also always not been particularly interested in shelling out billions of dollars for a vintage original.
And then, a few days ago, I wandered into Goodwill, and:
Arc lamp.
(Missing a shade, but also TWELVE DOLLARS.)
So I bought it, and then stopped by Lowe’s on the way home (as an aside, I think I am single-handedly supporting the entire Lowe’s franchise all by my lonesome at the moment; I literally have days when I go three or four times for various bolts and pieces of wood and what have you) and bought a simple silver shade for a few more dollars, and got home and put the thing in my new office (which is a little bare at the moment, but it’s still in progress), and I love it.
And then I went online to look up arc lamps in preparation for writing about them, and discovered that there are like millions of reproduction versions out there starting at just over a hundred bucks, so that’s good news for everyone who doesn’t have one sitting in their local Goodwill at the moment.
(Also mine is totally bent, as you can see. But that’s okay; still love it.)
Also pictured: Ikea Tobias Chair / Overstock Desk / Antique Rug (Similar)
