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1000 lights : 1878 to present

Designed as a companion to "1000 Chairs", this title contains a selection of over 1000 lights. It presents history's most interesting electric lights, arranged chronologically by decade, from Edison's first light to Tiffany's beautiful leaded glass shades to the outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the high-tech LED lamps.
Print Book, English, 2006
Taschen, Cologne, 2006
History
703 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm
9783822852873, 3822852872
226057386
Originally published in two volumes, 2005
Parallel text in English, German and French