One of the highlights of this project was the discovery of the handcrafted lamp shop LampLamp. While seaching online for the perfect lights, and obviously not finding anything to my liking in the big name catalogs, I came across LampLamp and was immediately taken by the original style of the lighting featured in their online catalog.
The shop is located in Takao, outside the usual showroom route, but well worth the detour. The cheerful owner, Sakou Daisuke, who incidentally speaks English and some French, explained how he started making his own lamps out of a desire to decorate his own family home with beautiful, unique fixtures. Very impressive!
On display in the elegant French-style boutique were a number of lamps I immediately fell in love with!
This chandelier, for instance, is simply stunning... Unfortunately, we have already purchased our chandelier, but if we find we are not pleased with it, this beautiful item will become our Dining Room Chandelier.
The online catalog photos do not do justice at all to this amazing collection of lamps! When I mentioned this to Sakou-san, he explained that taking nice pictures of lights is really difficult. I totally agree.
My purchase was this bead lamp that is sold either as a finished lamp or as a do-it-yourself kit. Naira and I assembled the beads and put the lamp together in a few hours.
But we didn't get to see the result until last Saturday!
LOVELY!
This is perhaps one of my favorite features of the house...
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