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BDDW Leather Lamp

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As the day ended we were looking for something beautiful to end on. Stepping into BDDW, we bumped into head designer, Tyler Hays, and asked him for something beautiful and new. He introduced us to his newest design, a table lamp made not out or wood, but thick leather discs...

 
 

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This baby is super heavy and the closer you get to it the more beautiful it is. the leather looks like its turned on a lathe and then polished. With a heavy bronze cap on either end, the final look is sort of sexy, understated industrial chic. Store specs are below.

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DESCRIPTION
Hand polished and shaped turned leather base.
Blackened bronze hardware. 60 watt maximum. Single bulb.

DIMENSIONS
39"H x 16" drum shade diameter

OPTIONS
White Linen Drum Shade

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lighting, leather, BDDW, Tyler Hays

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Comments (12)

I have a small group of containers I picked up at a thrift store made like this. They even have leather lids....I think 1 of them might have been made to hold tobacco for a pipe smoker...either way it is a cool looking lamp.

posted by Patrickinchicago on January 18th 2008 at 2:01pm
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WOOOF. Hot and sexy. This is going on the short list for a gentleman's co-op redo I am working on.

posted by patrick (the other one) on January 18th 2008 at 4:34pm
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beautiful and so well detailed as are all the offerings from bddw. as we say in new york, so, how much?

posted by patrik on January 18th 2008 at 5:43pm
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How come something this good is never offered as a "hot or not"?

posted by JonathanB on January 19th 2008 at 2:24am
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I'll add a meow

posted by Sassy in SF on January 19th 2008 at 6:52am
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And three out of three Patri(c)ks seem to really love it!!

posted by patrick (the other one) on January 19th 2008 at 9:22am
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Add me to the love it list.

posted by jimkk on January 19th 2008 at 10:58am
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Okay, the design is great, but why does the lamp have a 60 watt max? Reminds me of a lot of third world construction - great overall materials and design but then they use cheesy/cheap hinges, etc. that render the object nearly useless.

posted by ev on January 20th 2008 at 10:02am
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You do not need a thousand watt bulb in a lamp. One lamp should not be THE source for all your lighting.

Wouldn't mind a three-way. Bulb, that is.

posted by patrick (the other one) on January 21st 2008 at 6:00am
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ev and p(2): lamps can be rewired. And this one would be worth it.

posted by JonathanB on January 21st 2008 at 6:02am
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I totally agree this is quite beautiful.

As for the wattage, most 3 ways tend to be of higher wattage, like 75-100-150 or some such and it often has much to do with the heat and the shade that surrounds it, although for most table lamps for reading etc, one needs at least 75-100 watts, or it's energy saving equivalent version to provide enough LUMINS necessary for enough light to see what you are reading confortably is my guess.

For accents and such, 40-60 watts are perfect for those applications and this may be more of an accent type than a reading/task lamp.

posted by ciddyguy on January 21st 2008 at 7:47am
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That 75-100 is assuming it's the only light source in the vicinity, right? That's kind of my point... that it shouldn't necessarily be.

posted by patrick (the other one) on January 21st 2008 at 9:15am
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