Unknown manufacturer

Night Light

1929

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Unknown manufacturer

Night Light

Unknown manufacturer

Night Light

1929

Physical Qualities Bakelite, metal, 3 1/8 x 3 x 2 7/8 in. (7.9 x 7.6 x 7.3 cm)

Credit Line Purchased as the gift of Jay McKean Fisher, Baltimore, in Honor of Joseph A. Holtzman, Editor-in-Chief of NEST

Object Number 1998.505

BEDROOM OR OFFICE At the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, Gilbert Rohde displayed this chrome-plated desk lamp model in a full-scale display home decorated with mass-produced objects for middle-class consumers. Called Design for Living, the house showed how Depression-era designers incorporated the latest technology—like alarm clocks and night lights—into simple designs produced in cost-effective materials. The family grandfather clock or candle of 50 years before was now a stylish electric accessory, only an arm’s reach away on a personal desk or bedside table.

Old Saybrook Antiques Center, Old Saybrook, Connecticut