Mission Style Oak and Mica Lamps and Lighting
Ragsdale Home Furnishings is an old-style wood shop located in Lower Michigan. Phillip Daniel Myer, principal artisan, specializes in the original design creation and reproduction of high quality mission lighting and tables. Phil Myer has designed lamps for Williams Sonoma, Rejuvenation Lighting, Warner Brothers, and has his work can be found in The Museum of Art in Los Angeles, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Offices in The Sears Tower, The Hancock Building Chicago, The Curator's residence for the Florida State Senate Building, The Common Man Inn N.H., Gustav Stickley Home-Queens NY, Frank Lloyd Wright Apartment building in Oak Park Illinois, The Roycroft Copper Shop, and the Gamble House of Southern California University.
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In most rooms, there is a ceiling light or a ceiling fan with a light in the center of the room, controlled by a wall switch. I think of this as **“flood lighting.”** It is usually the brightest light in the room—perhaps the equivalent of a 100-watt bulb in a daylight spectrum. Flood lighting is useful when you really need to see everything. If you lose your glasses at night, are vacuuming the floor, or are looking for something you dropped, you can flip on that ceiling light and flood the entire room with bright light. But most of the time, you probably don't want that much light. It can be harsh on your eyes and simply brighter than you need. That is where my lamps come in. I design my lamps primarily to provide **background lighting**. With the bright overhead light turned off, several lamps placed around the room can create a comfortable level of illumination—enough light to move around easily, find the remote control, pick up a book, or simply enjoy the room. Rather than flooding the room from above, the light comes from several lower, warmer sources and becomes part of the atmosphere of the room. There is also what I call **“pool lighting.”** Suppose you are sitting in a reclining chair reading a book while someone else is watching television. You don't need to brighten the entire room. Instead, you need a lamp close enough to direct a concentrated pool of light onto your book. A reading lamp or floor lamp can provide that focused light without disturbing the comfortable background lighting in the rest of the room. So I think of residential lighting as having three basic layers: **flood lighting when you need maximum visibility, background lighting for everyday comfort and atmosphere, and pool lighting when you need focused light for a particular task.**My lamps are designed to help create those last two layers—not simply to illuminate a room, but to make the light itself part of the room's character. I like your home, and i can see my lamps would be perfect in it. The amber mica is very popular.
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