Lighting & Hardware
A look at lighting and hardware options for Arts & Crafts homes, including new and antique lighting fixtures, table lamps, exterior/porch lighting, lighting hardware, cabinet hardware, house numbers, metalwork and more.
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Elegance Lamps by Crystal Hayes
Antique lamps paired with antique and vintage textiles. Unique lighting for unique homes.
LIGHTING An Exploration for Old-house Owners & Designers
Here’s our curated selection of information about lighting — everything from early American tin and turned-wood chandeliers to mica lamps; Art Deco slipper shades to Sputnik pendants. Find information on metal finishing and rewiring, too!
HARDWARE Basics for Owners of Old Houses
Here’s our curated selection of information about traditional hardware—everything from early American rat-tail hinges to hammered copper bail pulls and mid-century chrome. Find information on salvage and repair, too!

A Revival of Art Lamps
Recent work—table lamps and floor lamps—carefully chosen by the editors. This Arts & Crafts lighting adds an artistic accent to any home.
Lighting to Accent & Define Arts & Crafts Interiors
Bungalows, Tudors, and Foursquares date to the electric era, after all, so lighting is integral to the Arts & Crafts interior. Craftsman lighting adds immeasurably to the mood.
Arts & Crafts Genre Lighting
As scholarship has grown and the revival has embraced many diverse roots, we better recognize sub-styles in work that emerged during the first and second decades of the 20th century in Arts & Crafts lighting.
On Arts & Crafts Hardware
A key craft of the A&C movement was metalwork, ubiquitous as architectural and furniture hardware. Once again it’s possible to get period-style hardware from the frank to the bizarre—and from both artisan shops and larger manufacturers.
Metalwork in the Design of the Arts & Crafts Home
A resurgence of fine work brings us such useful and beautiful objects for the home as fireplace tools, stove hoods, garden gates, handsome lighting, metal art tiles, and tabletop wares.
Vintage Lighting Restored
Even coated in grime and with broken glass, fixtures can be brought back to use and beauty.
A Look at Lighting & Metalwork: Fixtures, Lamps & Hardware
Choosing lighting may be the most fun you can have when you are decorating a house. Arts & Crafts-era lighting was designed from the beginning for electricity. That led to an explosion of forms, both traditional (based on candlestick or gaslight) and brand new.
From the Archive: Exotic Glass Shades of the Time
Verde Iridile, Agalite, and Cuirass: These romantic trade names were the marketing monikers for a popular series of Arts & Crafts-inspired lighting shades of deceptive beauty.
Lighting & Metal Arts: Styles from Syracuse to Pasadena
A look at light fixtures, art lamps and glass, hardware and metalwork of the Arts & Crafts Revival.
Lighting, Hardware & Metal
Could there be anything else that so perfectly combines Beauty and Utility as art lighting? Designed from the beginning for electricity, in a period that championed craftsmanship, Arts & Crafts lamps and fixtures represent an unprecedented marriage of technology and artisanry.
What’s in Your Socket?
Finally, technology is catching up with aesthetics. You can stop stockpiling energy-gobbling incandescent light bulbs.
Little Treasures
Yanked, pulled, slammed—the bits of metal, wood, and glass that allow drawers and doors on cabinets and furniture to operate smoothly at the touch of a hand are overlooked works of art.
Arts & Crafts Lighting & Hardware
Like jewelry for your home, the lighting and metalwork add style and shine in copper and brass and iron.
Kitchen Hardware
Hardware can be a big deal in the kitchen, or fade into the background. Quality products are available in every style and era, and in many metals and finishes.