With an ultraviolet sun lamp in one end and an infrared heat lamp in the other, this ivory-enameled fixture (I also found a pale blue version listed on ebay - my annotation) for bedroom or bathroom will equip the householder for all his special-light needs. The Select-o-ray, manufactured by Westinghouse, has a three-position switch, a combined floor and table stand, and a friction mount that permits it to be adjusted to and held at any angle. To produce the ultraviolet and infrared rays, the fixture uses two standard-base, internal-reflector bulbs, the ultraviolet one a self-ballasting type.

Isamu Noguchi, the famous japanese-american abstract sculptor was also a landscape architect, stage designer and furniture designer.

He first became interested in lamps after a trip to Japan. Compared with the cheerful and glowing lanterns of the Orient, American lamps seemed ugly to Noguchi and th elight they shed seemed brash. Deciding that in the U.S. undue stress is put on scientific efficiency in lighting, he set to work designing lamps which would be used not to read or work by but to provide pure decoration both in their shapes and colors and the soft, pleasant pools of light they shed. Experimenting with various materials - cast tone, plaster, glass panels, paper and plastics - he made amazing lamps priced from $19.50 to $125.