Baptism By Fire

Era: 1890 - 1920

Related Styles: Gas-Electric Style

By first helping to power the Industrial Revolution, gas eventually became the brightest, cheapest, and safest illuminant the world had ever seen.

By the 1890s, gas lighting had completed the move from the factories of industry to the mansions of the urban elite and, finally, to the houses of the working classes.

Our (electrified) gas-style fixtures are reproductions of styles found in homes and commercial buildings, and they possess two faithful period details: a continuous pipe stem, and a valve cock for the controlling the flow of fuel - the origin of the phrase "turning" on the lights.