STEWART ROSS JAMES TABLE LAMPS FOR HANSEN LIGHTING

A stunning pair of bronze, hourglass candlestick/buffet lamps with a beautiful, patinated verdigris finish by Stewart Ross James for HANSEN LIGHTING, circa 1960.  This particular model of James's famous design is quite rare and difficult to source compared with squared versions.  Both lamps still retain their original three-way collar switches. STEWART ROSS JAMES was born in 1912 in Toronto and moved to the US in his early teens; he attended high-school in Birmingham, Alabama.  He wrote in his yearbook that his life's ambition was "to be a success in the field of Interior Decoration."  By 1940, he was living in New York City and working as an interior designer on Park Avenue.  He later moved to Winchester, New Hampshire, where he continued design work, collaborating with the New York architectural firm of O'Connor & Kilham on projects for Kenyon College in Ohio, the Phoenix Insurance Company in Hartford, Connecticut, and for Princeton University's Firestone Library.  He designed i