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what you think about our Alaskan lamps, our web site, or our shades. If you
provide us with your contact information, we will be able to reach you in
case we have any questions. In the paragraphs below your comments area, we have published some of the comments that other visitors and customers have written to us.
Jim and Micki, We purchased an
argillite quartz lamp at the Performing Arts Dear Deborah and Alice, As far as using a bulb
larger than 100 watts, it depends on which shade you Stone Age Alaska Dear Stone Age Alaska, I own a top quality Alaskan art and gift store in downtown Anchorage. Many of my customers are from everywhere around the world. They have spent big bucks vacationing in Alaska and they want to return home with a keepsake of something very Alaskan. I have seen your artistic pieces in arts and crafts shows and I think they are about as Alaskan as you can get. I would like to carry your lamps and shades in my art gallery. Does Stone Age Alaska wholesale stone lamps to art galleries? Owner of the Uptown Downtown Gallery Dear Gallery Owner, Yes, we will sell or consign our lamps to your gallery, but only complete lamps and shades. We will not sell lamps without shades, or shades without stones to galleries. Thank you for the compliment and I look forward to doing business with you. Stone Age Alaska
Dear Stone Age Alaska, Does Stone Age Alaska wholesale stone lamps to rustic Alaskan lodges? We have a remote wilderness lodge that has used rustic furniture wherever possible. Your lamps would fit right in with our decor. Would you sell half a dozen at a lower unit price? Manager of the Moose Nugget Lodge Dear Moose Manager, Yes, we make extra effort to satisfy our customer's needs. There are many properly shaped stones for making lamps, but lack character or sufficient beauty to make it on this website. The rocks on his website have more than ordinary pizzazz, but we have some stones with less eye-catching appeal than the ones you see here that we wholesale. Please contact us through this website and I can email you pictures of these lamps. Stone Age Alaska Dear Stone Age Alaska, What do you think all Earth's rocks are for? Sure, they were resting perfectly content where they lied for another hundred thousand years, where they would to be worn to dust, and to eventually maybe re-enveloped into magma. So why not put them to use, detain them so to speak, cut them up and make something out of them? What a cool idea you have! Now we can show our friends we live here with our natural Earth, and not in just plastic fantastic. Also I want furniture that is naturally one-of-a-kind, not the same trinket found in each identical house on each identical block. So don't worry about, "I have that exact same lamp!” Doesn't “Wow, that is a beautiful and unusual lamp!” sound more pleasing on the ear drums? And think about it, after we extinguish the dominant life of our planet and cockroaches inherit the earth, in time they might branch into archaeology and LO! Look at this strangely shaped rock! What in the hell were they thinking? It could be a source of inspiration for home decorators in the desolate eons to come. Ian (name withheld) Olympia, Washington Dear Ian, What are you studying creative writing? Stone Age Alaska tries to blur the distinction between furniture (which is sedentary and sterile) and nature (which is dynamic and robust). The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, “Nature loves to hide.” In a way, Stone Age Alaska lamps are aiding nature by producing the ornaments of nature itself; a perhaps even a camouflage for ordinary furnishings. Heraclitus may have meant that the mysteries of nature are elusive by definition, but Stone Age Alaska provides that much needed reminder. Nature doesn't cut design costs to increase profits. In nature they are one and the same thing. Here at Stone Age Alaska we like to think that we are getting ahead of nature’s design process. This doesn’t necessarily mean nature might never start producing fine had crafted stone lamps, but then again it is not likely to do it any time soon. It is our belief that as creatures of nature (or well trained primates) we are inherently accustomed to the decorations of our natural environment; these are what evoke our instinctual feeling of “home”. Our everyday environment is becoming more sterile and synthetic, and thus our sense of home must adopt that same mask. Individual identity is lost to the homogeneity that our identical mass-produced objects support in our everyday environment. The objects of our home (local or global) define this feeling of “home”. It has been our experience that instead of fitting the inanimate mold that so much commercial furniture does, Stone Age Alaska contributes an ancient familiarity that is as old as beasts have called this big rock ‘home’. These lamps way 20 pounds, so they are much less likely to be knocked off the table. On the other hand, if the lamp falls on the cat who knocked it off the table; well the cat may need another one of its nine lives. Stone Age Alaska |
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