Meteor Lights designs and fabricates custom fiberglass drum lampshades, modern pendant light fixtures, and mod acrylic lamp bases in retro, atomic, and mid-century modern styles, bringing classic 1950s and 1960s Americana to your home or business. Our drum and tiered lampshades also look great with tiki, vintage western, and Danish Modern styles, to accommodate your 1950s Eames-era and contemporary residential and commercial lighting needs. We offer a wide selection of retro and contemporary lampshade styles, colors, and designs — providing a nearly infinite range of lighting possibilities.

Our shade material is the same fiberglass and resin parchment used on drum lampshades in the ‘forties and ‘fifties. We hand-stain our drum lamp shades to achieve a wide range of vintage, retro, modern, and contemporary colors, and we can match your colors (via fabric swatch, paint chip, or Pantone Guide), as well. We take pride in fabricating the coolest, finest quality replacement drum lampshades.

We specialize in the low-profile drum and tiered lampshades characteristic of mid-century/modern lighting of the 1940s and 1950s. Within certain parameters, the height of our drum lampshades can be customized to most lamps.

We also fabricate custom lampshades, such as the Majestic Z-Lamp tambourine shade with the classic zig-zag design, and the Danish Modern floor lamp inverted tall cone lampshade.

In addition to our replacement fiberglass lampshades, we incorporate our lampshade material into our custom-made swag lamps (hanging lamps), custom retro modern pendant light fixtures, sconce shields (perfect for your vintage Airstream Trailer), and our own line of mod acrylic lamp bases. Our UL Listed pendant lamps are suitable for many indoor commercial and residential applications. We can provide energy-efficient CFL pendant lamp sets (self-ballasted G24Q-3) to meet California Title 24 electrical requirements, for your “green modern” residential and commercial interior lighting projects. Most of our pendant swag lamps and hard-wired light fixtures 10″ diameter and up can be fitted with bottom diffusers. We can help design your retro-themed lighting project, or we can fabricate custom lampshades and light fixtures to your specs.

Can’t wait 4-8 weeks for your custom order? You might find your lighting solution in our in-stock lampshade gallery. These items are available for purchase and shipment within 48 hours.

Located in the Mission District of San Francisco since 1996, Meteor Lights provides cool custom lamps, vintage-retro and contemporary lampshades, and modern light fixtures to the Bay Area, Northern California, the West, and beyond.

More information on our lamps, light fixtures, and lampshades can be found on our
Lampshade and Pendant Lighting FAQ page.

….Help in choosing lampshades and pendant light fixtures can be found on our Lighting Tips page.

……..And we’ll be glad to answer any lighting-related questions at store@meteorlights.com