The impressive Electrolier of the Olympic is also preserved at Cutler's Hall in Sheffield, England.
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The main > entrance, on Bush street, is formed by a Roman arch of massive proportions > and striking design. The vestibule is rectangular in shape, is finished in > antique oak panelling, with pilasters and arabesques, and is lighted by > thirty-two 16 candle-power lamps and an electrolier of eight 82's. In the > beautiful foyer is another large electrolier. > > In the auditorium, behind the eight proscenium boxes, with dome-shaped > canopies supported by columns, rise arches of Indian fretwork carrying > pillars surmounted by 88 candle-power lamps enclosed in opalescent globes > shaped like pineapples.
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Under the province's control, Burnaby struck a deal with the Ford Motor Company to build an assembly plant near Kingsway and McKay Avenue. The plant opened in 1938, and was used to produce military vehicles during World War II; it became an Electrolier facility at some point after the war.Burnaby Planning Department (1977), p.18 Wholesale grocer Kelly-Douglas Company built a manufacturing plant and warehouse to the east of the Ford/Electrolier plant in 1946, and Simpsons-Sears opened a catalogue sales and distribution facility to the east of the Kelly-Douglas plant in 1954.
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The interior has polished marble floors and walls, with a rotunda surrounded by a balcony. The dome has both a colored glass skylight and a fine brass electrolier. The Crow Wing Historical Society Museum is located in the former sheriff's residence and jail. The jail building is just west of the courthouse.
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Bronze sconces and large rounded mirrors were installed throughout. A 49-light opaque glass and ormolu Electrolier with crystal embellishment occupied the central recess of the ceiling, which was itself elaborately molded with instrumental motifs. Adjoining the open seating area were cosy alcoves with inset mirrors and tall bay windows of leaded and stained glass.
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The Electrolier site became Station Square, opened in 1988 by Wesbild Enterprises. On opening day in 1988, part of anchor tenant Save-on-Foods' rooftop parking deck collapsed, injuring 21 people but causing no deaths. The strip mall closed in 2012, and is currently going through redevelopment. Also called Station Square, it will have five condominium towers.
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By the 1890s, with the appearance of electric light, some chandeliers used both gas and electricity. As distribution of electricity widened, and supplies became dependable, electric-only chandeliers became standard. Another portmanteau word, electrolier, was coined for these, but nowadays they are most commonly called chandeliers. Some are fitted with bulbs shaped to imitate candle flames, for example those shown below in Epsom and Chatsworth, or with bulbs containing a shimmering gas discharge.
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The crystal and ormolu electrolier from the lounge is installed in the Cutlers' Hall in Sheffield. Some of the timber panelling was used in the extension (completed in 1937) of St John the Baptist's Catholic Church in Padiham, Lancashire. In 2000, Celebrity Cruises purchased some of Olympics original wooden panels to create the RMS Olympic restaurant on board their new cruise ship, . According to the cruise line, this panelling had lined Olympics à la carte restaurant.
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In the mid-20th century the spirit of Metro- land was evoked in three "late chrysanthemums"John Betjeman (1954) A Few Late Chrysanthemums by Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984), Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death: "Harrow-on-the-Hill" ("When melancholy autumn comes to Wembley / And electric trains are lighted after tea"), "Middlesex" ("Gaily into Ruislip Gardens / Runs the red electric train") and "The Metropolitan Railway" ("Early Electric! With what radiant hope / Men formed this many-branched electrolier"). In his autobiographical Summoned by Bells (1960) Betjeman recalled that "Metroland / Beckoned us out to lanes in beechy Bucks". Betjeman centenary: commemorative plaque unveiled by Candida Lycett Green, Marylebone station, 2 September 2006 Described much later by The Times as the "hymnologist of Metroland",Bill Stock & Alan Hamilton The Times, 6 January 2007 Betjeman reached a wider audience with his celebrated documentary for BBC Television, Metro-land, directed by Edward Mirzoeff, which was first broadcast on 26 February 1973 and was released as a DVD 33 years later.
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He was one of the founders and the main designer of Taito company, and managing director of the firm in 1918–1953. He collaborated with distinguished Finnish architects, including Alvar Aalto, and his lamps were widely sold not only in Finland but in the United States, too, where his designs were popular especially in the 1950s. He used brass and glass in an elegant and simple fashion, and his designs were often decorated with perforated patterns. In 2018, the Danish design company Gubi relaunched a collection of Tynell’s lighting designs. Certain Tynell’s lamps have been auctioned at high prices. In 2019, for instance, his pendant “Snowflake” from circa 1950 was sold for 180 000 euros at Artcurial in Paris and an electrolier from the same time period for 134 000 euros at Christie's in New York. Since 1947, Paavo Tynell was married to the glass designer Helena Tynell née Turpeinen (1918–2016).
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Underneath, steel support columns with individual pad footings have been installed; except for at the eastern end the building where concrete block has been used to enclose a number of wet service rooms. The cookhouse does not appear to have been altered significantly, other than to have the original range removed and another installed. The garden and fence to the southern facade of the barracks building has been altered since 1984, as the only close-up photographic evidence reveals. Without any evidence from historical records, dating the building by its fabric alone is difficult, but it is most likely to have been erected between late 1922 when the sawmill began operation and the beginning of WW II. This estimate is based on its overall form, which features an enclosed verandah and a single roof over the entire structure; and the use of a single skin of fibrous cement sheeting on internal partition walls; as well as a number of elements believed to be original: the style of the casement windows with a number of lights and a predominance of mottled glazing, and the dark brown Bakelite electrolier light fittings (lights and adjacent cord- operated switch fixed to ceiling on timber board).
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