Excerpt from Shades and Globes: Catalogue Number 42
Almost everybody chooses shades from the decorative point of view. People like their homes, offices and stores to look well and do not give full value to the original purpose of the shade. Therefore, most of the shades generally used, and most of the shades illustrated in this book, are primarily ornamental. But we are interested in illumination quite as much as we are in glass and therefore we have kept out of this book the most wasteful forms of glassware.
We make the right shades and globes for every kind and size of lamp, to distribute light in the best way, with the minimum of waste and with the softest, most usable resulting illumination.
The best glass for almost every illuminating use is Alba. It is highly efficient and economical, handsome and easy to keep clean. It does not change the color of light but softens over-brilliancy without smothering or wasting illumination. It has unusual reflective powers, and distributes light accurately. By daylight Alba is a beautiful white. When lighted up it has an exquisite alabaster-like glow.
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