griffin

I don't often look at (meaning, I don't remember ever having looked at, but that surely can't be true?) the lamp fixtures on one of the upstairs balconies before: I suspect from when the house was refurbished in the 1970s, rather than the early 2000s, but I don't know - I doubt that it harks back to 1929.  However, the sun was catching it this evening, and so I was very struck by the alert little griffin-shadow.  I can't claim that I particularly like it, but it's definitely an attempt at Cali-Spanish design, and, translated into black and white, has ambitions as a piece of set design for a Chandler remake.