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Japanese Andon Lamp
Size : 18.5cm x 18.5cm x32cm(H)
 
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Japanese Andon Lamp
A traditional form more commonly seen in today's homes is the andon, a box or cylinder shape on short legs, to set on the floor. Most of these are equipped with handles so that they can be moved easily from one part of a room to another (or outdoors). The smallest, shortest examples are useful as night lights, illuminating a path outdoors, a step or a doorway, while the taller ones cast a soft glow in one area of a room, by a bed or chair.
About Japanese Cultur(From NY TIMES)
The blazing lights of a thousand candles have never been the Japanese ideal for an elegant room. Rather, the muted glow of a single flame, preferably screened by pure white paper, is the most fitting complement to a room defined by the natural tones and delicately rough surfaces of wood, straw and mud. Before they incorporated sliding glass doors, Japanese houses filtered the raw glare of daylight through translucent paper shoji screens, except when weather or the desire to admire the garden required exposing the interior to the elements. Even now, when a homeowner can afford them, wood-framed shoji screens mask glass doors and windows in their harsh and unattractive aluminum frames, lending a soft quality to the light, as if everything had been washed with a thinly diluted white pigment. The most characteristic atmospheric quality of outdoor light is similar, a misty subfusion of form and light that derives from the high humidity that Japan experiences much of the year.
Even in today's slick-surfaced gleaming interiors, light filtered through a thick sheet of translucent white paper framed in wood or other natural materials adds an intimacy that diffuses high-tech hardness. The simple geometric forms and fine materials of traditional Japanese lamps are well suited to the most contemporary lacquered Italian furniture or complement the rich details of a late Victorian room.
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