Something very wonderful happened a few months ago. I was estate sale shopping at Victor Rosellini's house and found a fantastic stained glass light fixture. Victor was a well known restaurant owner in Seattle and is a bit of a legend around here. I am into food and wine so for me to stumble upon this light fixture and have the opportunity to put a little Seattle history into our house is pretty cool. We don't know if this was installed in his home or one of the restaurants because the sale was packed with a combination of home and business. In any case it will be a welcome addition to our home.
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| The apron of the fixture |
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Here you can see how rippled the glass is inside, and colorful.
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| Steve from Seattle Stained Glass holding it to get some sense of the color. |
Steve from
Seattle Stained Glass repaired the two broken pieces for a fair price and Tom at
Mary Davis Vintage Lighting will bring it up to current electrical standards. This might be the only time I ever get a screamin' deal at an estate sale but at least it happened once. You know what I mean, we read these magazine articles about how a whole house is furnished with found objects for almost nothing. It generally means the homeowner is a designer and has spent a lifetime collecting. Or that person could be someone like my mother-in-law who lived in Pasadena for many years and loved to collect old house parts that people used to throw away. In a future post I will show you what she saved for us. I will leave you hanging with the fact that when she was living in Pasadena her mother-in-law and Mrs. Gamble were friends ......
