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A Leg Lamp Story
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A Leg Lamp Story

Joseph H Larnerd
Journal of design history, v 38(1), pp 90-100
Mar 2025

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everyday life human body leg lamp personal history Decorative Arts Popular Culture
I cannot see the leg lamp from the film A Christmas Story (directed by Bob Clark, 1983) without going back to the night my dad walked into our home with a nail in his foot. His injury eventually led to a partial leg amputation. This piece of reflective writing interweaves research on the leg lamp—an understudied icon of twentieth-century decorative arts in the United States—through recollections of my dad’s life.

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