torchere

Many halogen torchere lamps can now be bought for around $20.

He took off his Panama hat and hung it on an iron torchere.

"We were impressed," she said of the fluorescent torchere.

The fluorescent torchere will cost $70 to $150, but that price may come down as other manufacturers enter the fluorescent race.

"Well," Rhylla said, "are you going to stand there like a human torchere all evening, or are you going to light the bonfire?"

A kidney-shaped dressing table with a crazed Formica top hob-nobbed with a gilded torchere which had once shed light upon Count Cagliostro.

INEXPENSIVE halogen torchere lamps, whose 300-watt bulbs can reach a temperature of 970 degrees Fahrenheit, have become extremely popular, especially on college campuses.

The passage was lined with paintings, some lighted from below by torchere or candelabra, some from above by the gilded sconces; a few less favored, skulked in the darkness between.

The United States Energy Department announced last month that a safer fluorescent version of the halogen torchere should reach stores by late summer, and may be offered to students when they arrive on campus.

The new compact fluorescent torchere, based on technology developed by the Energy Department's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in Berkeley, Calif., was artfully designed to look like the halogen lamp.

The Coolbrite torchere uses a new generation of compact fluorescent bulb that needs only 67 watts to provide as much light as a 300-watt halogen bulb, said Michael J. Siminovitch, the staff scientist who led the research team in Berkeley.

Ann Kale, the president of Ann Kale Associates, residential and commercial lighting designers in Manhattan, was asked by The Home Section to test a Coolbrite torchere and to compare it with a widely used halogen torchere lamp.