I found this collecting dust in a box. I'd found it years ago in a thrift store and despite its tackiness, had to buy it. Seems to have been a store display for some perfume maybe in the 50s or so. It had a black base at one time. It's good solid vinyl (I think)...and thus survived Katrina's waters intact.
I found this up in my mother's attic recently. I remember it from my earliest childhood, before it was banished to the attic in favor of the (hideous) "Spanish look". It used to have an interesting tall skinny barrel shade with a kind of nubby texture. Exposure to 100,0000 degree New Orleans heat for the past 40 some odd summers has destroyed that, however. All that's left is the base. I'm sure this was the first exposure I ever had to marble. It initiated a life long love of the stuff.
I keep looking for some sort of shade to replace it. It's not been easy to find just the right one.
Before my aunt Dolores died a few years ago, she left my mother some of her stuff, including this clock, a gift I believe from her much hated third mother-in-law. It doesn't work, but being a sucker for anything shiny and ersatz gold, I decided to hang it up on for a while. I'm aiming for a kind of francophile's-apartment-in-1960 kind of look here.
Or...um...something.
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Treasures all!
I can I tell you how much I love your city?
I think you're on to something here. Or maybe you're just on something. As the youth say, "Whatev...." Take the clock out and replace it with a mirror and it's almost as good as your baroque fantasy.
oooh loving the sunburst clock!
I agree with mrpeenee, can always replace it with a mirror one day~
xo*
Vintage sunburst anything is very pricey now and yours is excellent. The statue would look great (put her in an urn planter with ivy?) on the table next to your cane chair, plus the lamp (when you find the right vintage shade). Keep combing the attics like a RIF'ed Blue Plate Mayo employee looking for a heel.
I’m loving the treasures. That starburst clock gives me the heebee jeebees. When I have a domestic dispute I fly off into objet d’ rage. That clock looks like it could take a head off. Whenever I‘m looking for a funky vintage shade I start here.
OH. Sweet. JESUS! We have the SAME clock!!!
Only mine works and I have a love/hate relationship with it. (in the closet/out of the closet) That is circa 1960's Syroco brand starburst clock.
I say have the clock fixed.
Oh, and the shadeless lamp is Amazing. Until the right shade comes along (soundtrack of my life)I would use it with a very low wattage globe-type bulb. It's yummy and needs to be seen.
LUV the clock! Alas, my Aunt Connie's sunburst clock was thrown out my my mother in a fit of cleaning.
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