Treasure hunting — Grandbari

I may have mentioned Farmhouse Antiques. Browsing at Farmhouse is super fun...and kinda therapeutic. Best part is, sometimes I find a treasure.

Last month as I was walking through the booths, I spied an interesting lamp. True confession, I'm a bit partial to lamps...so much so that I'm kinda running out of table space. (Outdoorman thinks this may be a problem.)

Anyhoo, the lamp was behind several others and new to the store. (knowing that it was new to the store may prove my Farmhouse obsession)

Since I'm a regular, I knew this was Ed's lamp...and he didn't just have one lamp...there was a match next to it. Woo Hoo. Ed happened to be in the store that day so I asked about the lamps. He said they came from a sale in North Carolina, and they were old and heavy...maybe Italian.

I scooped them right up and am not one bit sorry...even though I didn't actually need them and finding the perfect spot is proving to be a challenge.

Oh, the loveliness.

The lamps are quite tall, and I'm currently super crushing on tall lamps. They also have the coolest brass swans on either side. A black marble base adds to their heft. I love the neutralness (is that a word?) of the lamps...white, black and gold may be my favorite colors...or non-colors.

I did a bit of Googling when I got home to see if I could find a nugget or two of the lamp history. The closest I came was this pair at an antique store in South Florida.

Gah, that price. Look at all the money I saved by buying these! Outdoorman wanted to immediately sell these babies on Ebay but, hello, I already loved them.

Next step, and a hugely important step, was picking a shade. I headed to Calloway's in Knoxville because if they don't have the perfect shade, they'll make it.