Just wondering what passes the test of time? I personally have an old Casio watch and if you count fruit trees, those are pretty old too.
Just wondering what passes the test of time? I personally have an old Casio watch and if you count fruit trees, those are pretty old too.
My dad was friends with the guy who designed the Aztec Hotel. He didn’t want regular light fixtures originally, so he came up with an idea for lighted columns, and he made a prototype table-lamp sized. The was in 1925. The prototype is in my living room and I use it every day.
Interesting, got any pics?
I went downstairs and took one just for you:
His thing was that he didn’t want obvious electric lights in the lobby because Aztecs didn’t have electric lights. But it was decided that giant glass columns in earthquake country in the 20s was a bad idea, so they didn’t do it
Wow, that looks great. Thanks for showing!
Aww, that’s a shame they didn’t go through with it. I don’t see why it would be an issue structurally. You’d just need to build the structural spiller in the center, then put lights around that, then glass around that. LEDs would make this so much easier, but it still should have been doable. You could even make the glass “floating” so the floor/ceiling shaking wouldn’t break it.
I think in 1925 their ability to cushion big hunks of glass was lower, and they didn’t have safety glass. It was probably a good call, even though it was a cool idea.