Glass shades with Atomic Motifs & Space Age symbols.Ceiling lights with brightly painted tulip & angular patterns.Star and rocket detailing started to appear.This is when “Retro” Lighting really took off. During this period lighting designers in the UK, USA, Scandinavia & Europe embraced the Sputnik theme and produced lighting that was completely different to the more common Deco inspired and Traditional designs of the day.
This lead to household items and of course lighting being produced in radical new designs and patterns. Interior Designers, Architects, & Industrial designers were using Atomic Science, Space Age and modernist themes in their designs. Traditional Antique style lighting designs were also widely available in Brass and other traditional materials.ĭuring the 1950s cold war had really taken a grip, the space race & Atomic arms race had become reality and were in the news and in public awareness.
Art Deco “style” lighting was still widely available with chandeliers showing clearly defined Art Deco shapes and patterns. Lighting catalogues and publications from the 1950s’s often offered designs that were polar opposite in style. “Retro” as defined by the Oxford English dictionary – Imitative of a style or fashion from the recent past.
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