REMAINS LLC
HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA

About Remains Lighting Founded in 1996 by David Calligeros, Remains Lighting has evolved from an off-the-beaten-path antique resource to a world-class maker of artisan made-to-order and custom lighting, mirrors and candlesticks. Remains Lighting fixtures are of the highest quality and craftsmanship, each one made by hand to order in the Remains LEED Gold certified factory in Brooklyn, New York by a team of artisans and engineers using sustainable practices and traditional metalworking skills. Remains Lighting offers an array of its own original and distinctive designs as well as a fine selection of antique lighting and accessories. In addition, Remains produces lighting collections by the iconic Hollywood designer Tony Duquette and by New York based, award-winning architects Robert A.M. Stern and Alan Wanzenberg and Los Angeles based Commune Design as well as representing Scofield Lighting. Each of the collections produced by Remains Lighting are unified by gracious proportions and beautiful finishes. Remains’ fine metal work fixtures, mirrors, candlesticks and hand made lamps reflect a design sensibility of restrained luxury and authenticity in conjunction with excellent craftsmanship in which elemental materials are transformed into beautiful objects through the eye of the designer and the hands of skilled makers. Remains Lighting has showrooms in the New York area, Chicago, Los Angeles, and London. • Designing production jigs for accuracy and speed • Be an expert in the company's products (antiques and made to order) and custom fabrication capabilities. Our version of this classic finish is slightly tarnished and then repolished to bring out the lushness of silver. To slow down natural oxidation, silver plated fixtures are lacquered unless specified otherwise. Selected items in the collection are provided in our handpolished unlacquered silverplate. CARE: Maintain with periodic feather dusting. Do not polish lacquered finishes or get them wet. Unlacquered silverplate must be polished to maintain its luster. Each finish in our standard range comprises a series of tones along the spectrum from slightly lighter to slightly darker. Photographs on our website represent a single instance of a given finish. Every Remains fixture is hand-finished to order and minor variation is to be expected. The unique surface detail and particular alloy used will impact the read of the finish. Samples of our finishes are available for viewing in our showrooms. Please contact your salesperson to obtain an off-site sample, or download a printable finish sheet. A wide range of custom finishes are also available. We would be pleased to provide a quote based on the submission of your sample. Please contact your showroom for details A style of architecture, art and decoration lasting from approximately 1920 to about 1940, this period takes its name from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industririels Modernes of 1925. The unifying hallmarks of the period were an interest in simplified, reductivist geometric forms, speed, machine design, and products engineered for mass production. There were roughly two branches of the Art Deco movement, one interested in applying abstracting, essentializing, geometric treatment to all objects, be they teapots, book-bindings, or automobiles, and the other interested in form following function, rather than the decorative treatment of surfaces per se. A stylistic period in architecture and decorative arts from approximately 1880-1920 and strongest in the US, England, and Germany. The style emphasized decoration derived from construction techniques (e.g. expressed mortise and tenon joinery or nailheads) and hand-crafted products with the toolmarks left intact. The philosophical wellspring of this movement was an antipathy to the alienation of the craftsman from his work in an industrial setting, and a rose-tinted view of the medieval guild and cathedral school systems of production. The overall designs of fixtures were generally plain and ornamented if at all, with simple, naturalistic, stenciled decoration. See also "Mission Style". In glass-making, the opening in the furnace through which the flame passes. A light source of wax or tallow, usually cylindrical shaped, accreted around a yarn or cord wick, which when burning, provides steady light by drawing the molten wax up towards the flame. The wick burns only incidentally as the true source of combustion is the wax. Candles were first used in lighting fixtures in Egypt in the form of rush or reed-pith dipped in beeswax. The materials and techniques for making candles varied over the next ~3000 years but they were basically all vegetable-based wicks in animal fats or beeswax. Candle powered fixtures share some basic attributes that are appreciable in their form. They need a cup or pricket in or on-which to hold the candle. They need a pan or shallow bowl to catch the drippings. The candles are often held away from each other and from the central stem to not melt each other, and to disperse light evenly. The invention of the argand lamp in the 1790s and the kerosene lamp in the 1840s spelled the end of commercial candle power, but not of the aesthetic appeal of candle light. Fire gilding is a technique for applying gold to a base metal of usually bronze or silver by painting it with an amalgam of mercury and gold dust. When the amalgam-coated object is placed in a furnace, the mercury vaporizes and in doing so, creates a bond between the residual gold and the base metal. Historically, this extremely toxic technique paid very high wages as it tended to kill its practitioners in short order. A floor lamp is a light fixture that stands on the floor and is tall enough to provide light to a person seated in a chair. There are many varieties, but they all share these common features: A heavy base at floor level, a “standard” or pole that provides the vertical rise, a cluster that holds the sockets. Decoration formed by making parallel, concave grooves. In classical architecture they are commonly seen on column shafts and run in a vertical direction. Often confused with reeding. See also "Reeding".