All My Children: The Nelson Cigar Lamp

SPOTTED: A 1947 Cigar Lamp by atomic-age icon George Nelson--the director of design at Herman Miller, known for his marshmallow sofas, starburst clocks and bubble lamps--on ABC’s long-running daytime soap “All My Children,” inside Pine Valley’s too-cool-for-school nightclub ConFusion.

HOW DID IT GET THERE? Production designer Roger Mooney, an art and architecture student, has long been awed by Nelson’s designs, and thought they’d mesh well with the white-on-white elegant optics of Jocelyn Warner’s new Kaleido wallpaper, which Mooney says “has kind of a retro-y feeling, and you almost think, ‘hmm, Boca Raton—and not in a bad way.” Mooney particularly likes the surface of Nelson’s lamps. “Even though it's hard, it has a soft quality to it because of the ribbing.”

GET IT: $368 from ylighting.com.

Originally published in the Chicago Tribune.