Friday, 21 January 2011

Light Fantastic

I've been trying to think what my bedroom light was when I was a wee bairn, but the mists of time are in the way. I know I had a huge black and white poster of Karloff as Frankenstein [stood in a doorway] on my wall above the bed. They were advertised in the back of Creepy and Eerie mags and Athena did them as well, which is where my Folks will have grabbed one for me one Christmas or Birthday in the late Sixties [just remembered how much I loved Athena Poster shops and as a teenager bought loads of them there with my absolute favourite being a toss-up between a Rodney Matthews Orc-Hornet battle or a Hildebrandt brothers Gandalf, which I also has as a small wooden block picture. Happy Days!]. Anyway, thinking about lights got me thinking if they were important in the Anderverse? Certainly SWORD toys were made magical by coloured flashing lights like those on the Moon Prospector but did any cool lamps appear on anyone's desk or ceiling. I'm sure they did in UFO [anyone?]. I remember a cool lamp in Space 1999 and I'm amazed to see it's available as a limited and rather expensive edition 'Sorella' from FabGear USA! Total Italian cool as you can see below!
A few years ago when I was ebaying like billio I sold a small folding vintage desk lamp, which had a telescopic neck and looked like a large and neat cream-coloured bar of soap. I was gobsmacked to see the very same design perched on the corner of Freddie Mercury's piano in the 1976 video for Bohemian Rhapsody! What taste! You can see it after about 55 seconds in this You Tube clip [and add to the 46 million hits this footage has already had - now that's popular!]


Any more cool lights or lamps in the Anderverse or beyond?

2 comments:

  1. ed straker always had some cool stuff on his desk!

    Love Rodney Matthews and the Bros Hildebrandt!

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  2. Sorellarium has it all on Space: 1999, now check this out

    http://www.space1999.net/~sorellarium13/alphan-furniture.htm

    Among all the Italian designs, one of the Finnish designer Eero Aarnio's famous chairs - The Pastille - found its way into the Moonbase decor, too.

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