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Conelight Double Floor Lamp – 1974 Laurel Lamp Company Catalogue Picture
Laurel Lamp Company
The Laurel Lamp Company was an American lighting manufacturer and importer based in Newark, New Jersey, active from 1946 to 1981. Period catalogues show that Laurel not only sold its own designs, but also lamps from several European makers. A number of these models are clearly of Italian origin.
Conelight Double Floor Lamp
Materials: Rectangular white metal (iron) base. Cast iron counterweight inside. Black bottom. White metal rod. Chrome rod. Black spiral cord. 2 black dimmers. Adjustable round lampshades. Aluminium reflectors. Some metal parts. 2 white painted Bakelite E27 sockets.
Height: 156 cm / 61.41” – adjustable
Lampshades: 15,5 x 8 cm / 6.10 x 3.14”
Base: 21 x 19 cm / 8.26 x 7.48”
Electricity: 2 bulbs E27, 2 x 100 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, not a specific one preferred.
Period: 1970s – Mid-Century Modern.
Designers: Ronald Homes & Edmund Harry Cooke-Yarborough.
Manufacturer: Conelight Limited, Feltham, United Kingdom.
Other versions: This Conelight double floor lamp was made in several versions and colours. Matching table lamps and flush mount ceiling lamps were produced as well.
The design is often mistakenly attributed to Peter Nelson for Architectural Lighting. Nelson designed other lamps, and several of his models feature a double dimmer too, which likely caused the confusion.
In the USA, these lamps were sold by the Laurel Lamp Company.
Lyfa
The lampshades are very similar to those of the Lyfa Piccolo series. The Lyfa versions can be recognised by the four elongated holes at the top of the shade and by the flat round base used on the floor lamps. The Piccolo series received an iF Design Award in 1975.
Conelight Limited
Conelight Limited was founded in October 1946, shortly after World War II. The company was first based in Feltham, Middlesex, and was later active in Shaftesbury, Dorset. Conelight no longer exists and was dissolved in 1988.
Designers associated with the company include E. Cooke-Yarborough and Ronald Homes, both of whom are mentioned in period sources in connection with Conelight lamps and the company’s Q range.
Ronald Homes was an English RAF pilot, industrial designer and painter. After his wartime service as a pilot, he continued his artistic training and went on to work for many years as an industrial designer and manufacturer.
E. Cooke was Edmund “Ted” Harry Cooke-Yarborough (25 December 1918 – 10 January 2013), a British electronics engineer and designer. He is best known as the lead designer of the Harwell Dekatron, or WITCH, one of the earliest surviving electronic computers in the world.
The difference between the lampshades of Conelight and Lyfa.
Links (external links open in a new window)
Ted Cooke-Yarborough – Wikipedia
Ronald Homes website – Archived
iF Design Award for the Lyfa lamp series
Vintageinfo
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Many thanks to Hans from Ztijl Design for the help.
Many thanks to Paul and Marc for the help.
Conelight Double Floor Lamp – Company Labels & Logos
