XIX a. antros pusės - XX a. pirmos pusės sietynų gamyba pramoninėse Europos dirbtuvėse ir jų paveldas Lietuvoje

LTStraipsnyje pristatomos X IX a. antros pusės - X X a. pirmos pusės pramoninės Europos sietynų dirbtuvės ir jų atsiradimui įtaką darę kultūriniai, istoriniai veiksniai. Tekste siekiama atskleisti kol kas menkai tyrinėto paveldo vertę bei supažindinti su išlikusiais tam laikotarpiui būdingiausiais pavyzdžiais Lietuvoje. Aptariant straipsnio objektą (dirbtuves ir jų dirbinius) fragmentiškai prisiliečiama ir prie pramoninio dizaino raidos. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Sietynai; Apšvietimo priemonės; Istorizmas; Art neuveau; Art deco; Pramoninė gamyba; Chandeliers; Lighting fixtures; Historicism; Art Nouveau; Art Deco; Industrial production.

ENInformation about chandeliers manufactured in the 2nd half of the 19th century and the 1st half of the 20th century and, especially, chandelier factories of this period is scarce in published overviews of the evolution of European lighting fixtures. Perhaps most authors still hesitate whether this mass-produced equipment is of any value; it also seems that their preservation is not a major concern either. An overview of the historical and cultural context of the 2nd half of the 19th century and the 1st half of the 20th century reveals the reasons behind negative attitudes toward mass-produced items and the pioneering designers' efforts to change the standing situation by improving the design of everyday-use objects. In the discussed period, chandeliers were not produced in Lithuania industrially. The system of guilds, which survived until the end of the 19th century, produced a situation in which such household items were commissioned to local craftsmen or imported from abroad. Surviving factory catalogues and equipment found in Lithuania demonstrate that particularly large numbers of chandeliers were imported from Warsaw - the metallurgy centre of the neighbouring Poland, as well as from Berlin (Germany) and Russia. The article discusses the factories of these countries and the goods they manufactured, and attempts to identify the workshops that produced the chandeliers surviving in Lithuania. The preservation of the examples stored in Lithuanian museums or still hanging in sacral and secular interiors would pay due tribute to an important and interesting remnant of the technical age. [From the publication]

• Lietuvos auksakalystė : XV-XIX amžius / Edmundas Laucevičius, Birutė Rūta Vitkauskienė. Vilnius : Baltos lankos, [2001]. 487 p.
• Moderniojo amatininko idėja pobaudžiavinėje Lietuvoje / Jolita Mulevičiūtė. Kultūrologija. 2002, t. 9, p. 226-252, 463-464.