{"product_id":"oliver","title":"Oliver","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhere other lights point, this one opens upward, a wide prismatic glass dome facing the ceiling like a cup held to catch something falling from above.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt its crown sits a genuine antique Holophane-style floodlight head, its large concentric-ridged glass lens fully intact, its brass collar and original mounting hardware all preserved exactly as found. The Holophane design, developed in the early twentieth century specifically to distribute light with maximum efficiency through prismatic refraction, gives this piece a glow unlike anything else in the collection: broad, diffuse, warm, and multidirectional, the concentric rings of the lens visible as a quietly hypnotic pattern when lit, like a still pool of amber water seen from above.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt stands on what is perhaps the most elegant tripod in the collection, polished steel, fluted legs, extendable with precision hardware, chain-braced at the center column with a ground spike at its base. This is a genuine surveying or field tripod of real quality, its machined fittings and slim profile a deliberate contrast to the broad, generous dome above. The two objects — dome and tripod — were never manufactured together, yet they find each other with complete visual logic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLit and placed in a room, this piece does something the directed searchlights in the collection do not: it fills the space above it, bouncing warm light off the ceiling and back down into the room in the manner of the best indirect lighting. It is, in the purest sense, a genuine antique light doing exactly what it was designed to do, only somewhere new.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDetails:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHandcrafted piece\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — assembled piece by piece\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAntique Holophane-style prismatic dome\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — original concentric lens and brass collar intact\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginal precision tripod\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — polished fluted steel legs, chain brace and ground spike\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBroad, diffuse warm amber glow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — via prismatic Holophane refraction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFull standing height\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — significant floor presence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExposed Edison-style filament bulb \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— for warm, ambient task lighting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e0 x 0 x 0\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe most serene piece in the tripod series, a genuine antique that lights a room by looking upward rather than outward.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Summer Never Ends","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52631862804767,"sku":"L0005","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0964\/7056\/5151\/files\/L0005-1.jpg?v=1782198565","url":"https:\/\/summerneverends.au\/products\/oliver","provider":"Summer Never Ends","version":"1.0","type":"link"}