We thought it would be fun to allow some new voices onto the LAMPS PLUS blog, namely the designers, artists and movers-and-shakers behind the great lighting you see on our site.  To introduce this new feature, who better than designer Babette Holland from beautiful downtown Brooklyn? Babette Holland Design is a ...

We're long-time fans of the ''21st century Americana'' look from Brooklyn lighting designer Babette Holland. Babette and her husband Tony produce fabulous works of art from recycled and reclaimed aluminum. Traci, a blogger at Green Vaccine, took notice of one of Babette's environmentally-friendly table ...

Many thanks for reading my posts over the last week. And we've appreciated all of your support, kindness, and enthusiasm for our products, not to mention everyone's e-mails, questions and photos all these years at LAMPS PLUS. Here's to the whole LAMPS PLUS family and I hope to be able to do this again soon. Now let's eat. Babette ...

We do have a motto, no not the Mob motto- for those of you who thought you were so smart...If there's a more complicated way to manufacture things, we just haven't found it yet. And we live by it daily. To make something we hope will be passed down isn't easy, we need to ensure that the hand of the artisan is seen in the final piece during the ...

I started as a potter and realized the sophisticated shapes of my pottery made beautiful lighting.  Tony and I both have a strong Modernist aesthetic, which probably relates best to the house in ''Godfather II'' (some really great furniture and lighting), but we pair it with very fashion-forward finishes.  Many of which come while ...

It's true that everything I know I've learned from ''The Godfather'' ( I and II- not too much from III) and since I'm going to Las Vegas for the first time (to a tradeshow) it actually ties in to our product.  First, I have to tell you that we're staying at The Flamingo.  Where else could we stay?  It was Bugsy's place (aka Moe ...

When LAMPS PLUS asked me to be their FIRST guest blogger, I immediately looked up the spelling of the word ''blogger'' - two ''g's'' or one, I wondered. Having successfully obtained that knowledge, on to the task at hand. What to blog about? Politics and religion were out- besides, the news pretty much has that covered 24 hours with the ...