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How to Decorate With Lampe Berger Scent Lamps

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Lampe Berger lamps are actually old-style alcohol lamps that were used for killing bacteria and improving the air in hospitals. They were invented by a pharmacist named Maurice Berger in 1898. Nowadays they come in all kinds of different fragrances and also interesting style.

The lamps come with a venting cap, snuffing camp and a funnel you chose the aroma of oil that you would like to fill your home and the result is a gorgeous smelling abode. The fragrance oils in themselves are decorating tools. The fragrances themselves are divided into themes that embrace many fragrances. For instance Dreams of Exploration is a line that contains scents that smell like different places. For instance Chic Paris is a mix of citrus fruits, peach, musk sand rose garden; evocative of the gardens and boutique smells from a street in France. In fact the next blog will be all about how to decorate with Lampe Berger aromas as a smell can totally change the character of a room.

The glass alcohol lamps come in a variety of different styles that suit different interior design themes. The Ice Lamp collection has two parts. There are the little clear or frosted glass spheres and there are solid white ceramic vessels as well. Some of them like The Clear Swirls. look like little perfume bottles with side swirls. Another style called the Pearl Bingo is just a round white ball that would look just right on the set of Stanley Kubrick movie. For a classic sixties look choose the white Milk jar which is white ceramic with a little swirled jeweled top. For a look that suits the lady who wears Lanvin or collects old perfume bottles the Louis XII is appropriate; this model is engraved with a floral pattern and has a shiny gold venting cap that makes it look like it belongs in the French court or in the powder room of a fancy room in the south of France.

Lampe Berger also makes a series of lamps that come in chocolate, amber glass known as the Spice Collection. These look more like after shave bottles with shiny silver tops. The Athena model, which is ridged and egg shaped looks like it is from an art deco era. The Amber Corollossima looks is that “ballerina skirt style bottle” that is so reminiscent of the fifties. These bottles look good on a male dresser or in a dark stone bathroom. The Spice line of lamps also comes with Bingo ball style of lampe that is made out shiny gold metal; it suites retro eighties décor that has lots of red and brown.

How to Decorate With Seventies Style Tiffany Lamps

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Tiffany Lamps can add a seventies touch to your décor. Even a really modern white and orange plastic mod seventies look can be augmented by a tiffany glass simply because the “surprise” of something out of date is part of the entire 70s look – like something out of a Stanley Kubrick movie. Also tiffany lamps had a real heyday in the 1970s and were a hot lamp (no pun intended.) They were widely sought after collectibles during that time and also that was the decade when many factories opened up to start making reproduction Tiffany lamps. These reproductions are easily identified because the way the glass is cut is more reminiscent of the type of broad and curvaceous shapes that you would see in something like the Beatles animated movie “Yellow Submarine.”

Tiffany style lamps were also very much a part of the country styles of décor that were popular in the seventies. They went well with stuffed brown couches and octagonal shaped side tables. Many gaudier examples of tiffany lamps were seen hanging by big looped cords over dining room tables in seventies color schemes such as orange and brown or mustard and green. At the time these types of tiffany lamps could be picked up for ten bucks at a mall but nowadays they can be worth a small fortune so if you have one in your garage you might want to consider putting it up on e-Bay.

The nice thing about a Tiffany lamp, no matter what era it is from, is that it can reflect little coin or diamond shaped shards of light that can end up on your wall. This gives any room a very cozy and elegant touch. Tiffany lamps are also very nice to read by as the light from them is bright, but has a soft quality. Tiffany lamps also look best in a dark corner where they can shine in their full glory.

The less clutter that is around a Tiffany lamp the better it looks. Most have very elegant lamp bases as well that are reminiscent of flower stems or curved like swan’s necks.

By the way if you are a woman and you want to make yourself look younger, try putting a tiffany lamp with a pink themed lampshade on your bedroom table. This will shed a soft pink glow that will make you appear more youthful.

Depending on what you pair the lamp with the room can look neo-modern, countrified or like you have a real appreciation for antiques.