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atherine Wildt O'Brien invests in her lamps and tables not only the property of illumination, but that of possible mystical power, forging the bases from gorgeous natural crystalline clusters of gemstones: amethyst, quartz, malachite, citrine and even turquoise nuggets. There is something about lighting itself that is transformative; currently the technological search is on to invent an LED light bulb that sheds light equivalent to beloved and familiar incandescence. Of the changes in Japanese atmosphere and indeed society wrought by the incandescent bulb, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki wrote in 1933 the famous essay, In Praise of Shadows, in which he extolled sabi—darkness—and its sister, shadows, as the best medium for viewing Asian works of art. Yet Tanizaki was far from cursing the electric bulb, insisting that, "the lonely light of a bulb under an old-fashioned shade, shining dimly from behind the white paper shoji of a thatch-roofed farmhouse, can seem positively elegant." K HYLAND