{"product_id":"1950s-gilt-wrought-iron-floor-lamp","title":"1950s Spanish Gilt Wrought-Iron Floor Lamp","description":"\u003cp\u003e1950s Spanish Gilt Wrought-Iron Floor Lamp\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe plain conical ivory linen shade above a small circular drip-pan or bobeche of flattened form — a deliberate allusion to the ecclesiastical candlestick tradition from which this form directly descends — above a slender plain round-section standard of hand-forged iron, punctuated at the median by a small compressed knop, the whole raised on a tripod base of three arched legs of elegant, attenuated form issuing from a central junction and terminating in outward-curling spade feet, the entire surface finished in a warm distressed gilding of mottled gold and umber tone, the wear wholly consistent with age and entirely enhancing to the object's character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe present lamp belongs to a tradition of Spanish gilt ironwork that flourished with particular intensity in the decades immediately following the Spanish Civil War, when a generation of \u003cem\u003eherreros\u003c\/em\u003e — blacksmiths and ironworkers — working primarily in Madrid, Seville and the workshops of Catalonia produced floor lamps, candelabra, console tables and mirror frames of l refinement for the grand interiors of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe leading name in this tradition is Ferro Arte and the workshop of Juan Ferro, though numerous accomplished regional makers produced work of comparable quality within the same broad aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe form of the present lamp is a historical  — the tripod base with its arched legs and spade feet deriving directly from the medieval Spanish \u003cem\u003eblandón\u003c\/em\u003e or processional candlestick, via the wrought-iron altar furniture of the Castilian and Andalusian cathedrals,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe deliberate retention of the bobeche — functionless in an electric lamp, purely allusive —anchoring the object firmly within its ancestral tradition whilst making no pretence of being anything other than what it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Vault Sydney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41991005863991,"sku":"VS2227","price":2400.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2322\/8433\/files\/VS22270116_bb884009-9488-4f12-aecb-a8fc5c1363d0.jpg?v=1775619720","url":"https:\/\/thevaultsydney.com\/products\/1950s-gilt-wrought-iron-floor-lamp","provider":"The Vault Sydney","version":"1.0","type":"link"}