Electrorama

LIZ SAYS: I'm doing some catching up after that sour expose on the health exam. Just some small things with photos that make life much better.
For example, when I first got here, I was looking for the perfect lamp for our new apartment. I found it at a place called Electrorama. It turned out to be about 8 blocks way, at the time, I thought it was on the other side of town.
It was crammed full of every conceivable light fixture, some utterly absurd and some totally practical and boring. There was a light fixture that was made of cages filled with plastic mice, light fixtures made of multi-colored bottles on a shelf to hang from the ceiling, every modern light fixture you'd ever seen, things that had light but didn't seem to be about actually lighting a room. Giant light bulbs, giant amorphous shapes containing bulbs made of some sort of fabric hanging from the ceiling stretching over 6 feet long and chandeliers made of little greenish spice bottles. It was a fun place just to walk around in. Absolutely crammed full, so full you had to be very careful.
Electrorama is closing or changing owners and the front window had sheets all over it from past patrons. It was amazing, from Karl Lagerfeld to Marcello Mastroianni to
Jacques Chirac had written thank you notes and/or drawn little sketches to thank the shop for their work.