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Starlight Light Fixture

Starlight

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Dimensions 12 × 12 × 11 in

A Lucas, aka "Prince of Darkness," foglamp shell loosely embraces 100 3500K (bright white) LEDs on copper wire, spilling onto a wooden armrest dining chair on a hand-hammered aluminum base.

The headlamp shell is a Lucas Industries automotive fog lamp. Joseph Lucas started what would later become Lucas Industries when he was a jobless father of six. Lucas expanded into multiple industries, ranging from socially useful goods to military equipment, by Lucas capitalizing on its ability to monopolize markets. This government created monopoly power ultimately resulted in the collapse of numerous British industries, as Lucas equipped cars and motorcycles were so unreliable that Lucas earned the nickname “Prince of Darkness.”
The headlamp shell is mounted on a dining chair arm that belonged to my maternal grandfather. My grandfather began work as a lineman at Texas Power and Light in 1910 at the age of ten years old. He smoked Camel unfiltered cigarettes until he died in 1965.

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