Arts & Crafts Lighting & Hardware
Like jewelry for your home, the lighting and metalwork add style and shine in copper and brass and iron.
The influences continue to expand in the design of today’s lighting and metalwork. You can find hammered work reminiscent of Dirk Van Erp and the metal shops of the Roycrofters . . . proto-modern designs inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh . . . geometric Prairie School designs and Asian-influenced work.
Arts & Crafts hardware is produced in iron, brass, copper, and bronze with beautiful patina-rich finishes. Lighting may be the most visible and affordable way to give rooms a period ambiance. Designed from the beginning for electricity, Arts & Crafts lamps and fixtures combine utility with beauty in an unprecedented way. Whether yours is a shingled cottage on the Atlantic or a Storybook Tudor in California, you can find just the right vocabulary.
Patricia Poore is Editor-in-chief of Old House Journal and Arts & Crafts Homes, as well as editorial director at Active Interest Media’s Home Group, overseeing New Old House, Traditional Building, and special-interest publications.
Poore joined Old House Journal when it was a Brooklyn-brownstoner newsletter in the late 1970s. She became owner and publisher and, except for the years 2002–2013, has been its editor. Poore founded the magazines Old-House Interiors (1995–2013) and Early Homes (2004–2017); their content is now available online and folded into Old-House Journal’s wider coverage. Poore also created GARBAGE magazine (1989–1994), the first unaffiliated environmental consumer magazine.
Poore has participated, hands-on, in several restorations, including her own homes: a 1911 brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and a 1904 Tudor–Shingle Style house in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where she brought up her boys and their wonderful dogs.
