Category: Our Work
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When is a lamp, a lamp?
Architectural Vs. Decorative Lighting. While coached in different words, we are often asked this question In the course of our business. Palayan fabricates decorative lamps, not architectural lamps. The difference between these two types of lamps can be simply put as: the decorative lamps mainly prettifies the place whilst the architectural lamps mainly serves to…
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Lighting Places of Worship
Maalaala mo kaya? Malamang hindi. I don’t think there is anyone reading this post who could have seen for themselves the evolution of Church lighting from candles to oil to gas and, till recent history, to the widespread use of electricity. The wrought iron chandeliers which were initially installed in our vintage Churches were all…
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The Shade Defines the Lamp
A lady in her mid-twenties visited us at the shop to have her vase converted into a table lamp. She said that she wanted the new shade to be in the same durable material that her late mother’s shade was made from seventeen years before. She had inherited this lamp with its original shade and…
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Restore or Junk That Crystal Chandelier
Palayan has restored thousands, of all types of chandeliers, over the years. But crystal chandeliers call for the most care. Glass and crystals are fragile materials and cannot be glued together if broken but must be replaced. What gives us pause when accepting these projects is the age of the chandelier and its state of…
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47-Year Itch Waiting to be Scratched
It has been a 47-year itch waiting to be scratched. Palayan Lamps was commissioned in 1969 to fabricate and install the three capiz-and-crystal chandeliers of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. It was only after 47 years, in 2016, that we were called back to refurbish these chandeliers in preparation for the Center’s 50th Anniversary…