Post #375992 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Apr 24, 2008 5:22 PM

Ask and ye shall receive. They are 1980/90s Orchids of Hawaii Co restaurant lamps:

On 2008-02-06 08:31, bigbrotiki wrote:
If he had 15 lamps initially, it makes sense that they were from a restaurant originally. The price is a good deal considering that Orchids of Hawaii was selling these wholesale for 35.- bucks in 1992:

It's great you got the whole set up, the shade and the torch part are often missing when these pop up nowadays

But compared to the classic carved Trader Vic's Janus Tiki lamps (excluding the new Poly-Asian imports!), or any of the wooden lamps that were made by Oceanic Arts.....

....and especially the rare ceramic Tiki table lamps that were used at Stephen Crane's Luau and Kon-Tikis and at The Tahitian....

.....these Orchids of Hawaii metal lamps are at the esthetic tail end of the genre. Here is another nice one, the logo Tahitian Cannibal Carving from the Mai Kai: