House of Troy Expands Offering with G. Scatchard

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G. Scatchard Ceramic Lamps

The lamps are trimmed and glazed by hand, applied with a brush as the lamp spins on a potter’s wheel creating the inherent swirls found on the lamps base.

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) June 19, 2012

G. Scatchard Lamps, located in Underhill, Vt., has been in the pottery making vocation for more than 50 years through an array of methods but has taken to specializing in the creation of lamps.

According to House of Troy, Bill Brown, president of House of Troy, said that the lamps made at G. Scatchard are not just your standard lamps, they are artwork.

“Scatchard gives us the opportunity to better serve our retailers by expanding our offering,” Brown said. “The colors created by the unique glazing process will appeal to the most discerning customers.”

G. Scatchard Lamps fabricates their lamps in various styles with very distinctive shapes and attractive colors, glazes and textures to choose from:

•     Oatmeal – one of G. Scatchard’s oldest glazes has a speckled earthy appearance that almost looks like genuine stone.
•     Decorated Red – combines two different glazes to create a very particular pattern. First, the lamps are glazed in Iron Red (creating a crystalline semi-gloss surface) and another glaze is then splashed with another glaze, creating a burgundy with black and brown streaked adornment.
•     Blue Gloss – is a deep, glossy blue hue that adds a bright intensity to any lamp.
•     Limestone – an off white, grainy clay coating that adds a look of stucco to the lamps.

There are a lot more glazes to choose from with new colors and textures that come out monthly. Each shade is made of heavy domestic linen in a light cream color and can be chosen in wither a typical “regular” shade or a drum style shade.

All George Scatchard ceramic table lamps are handmade in Vermont in a rehabilitated horse barn and are all shaped on the potter’s when by George Scatchard himself. The lamps are trimmed and glazed by hand, applied with a brush as the lamp spins on a potter’s wheel (creating the inherent swirls found on the lamps base).

According to gslamps.com, “The glazes themselves are the result of a lifetime of experimentation and are unique in their variety and richness.”

House of Troy, located in Hyde Park, Vt., is a foremost producer and designer of lamps, picture lights, and wall lighting; creating timeless styles in lighting since the mid 1940s. The company designs and crafts all of its products and is an affiliate of Arryo Craftsman and H.A. Framburg & Co. through the common ownership of Malcolm Tripp.

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