Looking for photos of items that many people from your country would have at their grandparents home. Items that people from your country would immediately identify as “old” and “common”, possibly with some nostalgia included. Mainly interested in lamps, but if you’re up for it, feel free to also/instead add an image link for:
* a very common cup-and-saucer set at grandparents home,
* a very common armchair at grandparents home,
* a very common kitchen cupboard at grandparents home.
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Not really one of your categories, but I feel like every old person here has one of [these types of soup bowls](https://whatsnewtoday.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/soep-van-de-dag-soepkom-scaled.jpg) with a recipe on it in their home. I encounter these things way too often when I visit older relatives or when I’m just browsing in a thrift shop.
There are these glas bowls with a leaf pattern. Turns out the original is “Serie Aspen”. They are a strange cultural phenomenon that everyone knows, but not knowing how to place them.
Here in Germany, every proper grandparent will own at least one of [these salad bowls](https://img.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/api/v1/prod-ads/images/0b/0b5eb7e3-fdce-40b6-b17a-b325b8f15119?rule=$_59.JPG). And I really mean nearly everyone. They are ridiculously common.
There is a [drinking-glasses-and-pitcher set](https://nlc.p3k.hu/uploads/2018/01/kukoricas3-1.jpg) I see turning up at flea markets often, made to look like ears of corn- they’re quite cute, but VERY old-fashioned. My grandparents had them, and I’m sure they were very fashionable at a certain point in time! It kinda feels like everyone had them.
I don’t know about the lamp or the other categories, but some things common in Romania would be:
* [a glass fish](https://frankfurt.apollo.olxcdn.com/v1/files/m1a9xh08nftn3-RO/image;s=4032×3024)
* [this kind of decorative ceramic figurines](https://fresh24.ro/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/bibelouri.jpg)
* [these things that I have no idea what to call in English](https://www.antic-shop.ro/Antichitati/7568/385215/1.jpg)
I think these apply across the UK:
[Grandparents’ lamp](https://www.antiques-atlas.com/antique/standard_lamp__silk_shade_/pd011a458) – this style of floor standing lamp is actually known as a “standard lamp”.
[Bone China teacup and saucer](https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/products/english-rose-teacup-and-saucer) – usually with a flowery pattern and only used for visitors.
[Armchair (with antimaccassars)](https://www.chums.co.uk/Products/RT152/non-slip-cotton-and-lace-furniture-accessories?SKU=RT152CRECHA&gclid=Cj0KCQiAn4SeBhCwARIsANeF9DK_Q3BH8Gif0VBzzdx5TqKae-jV4x8fNEkzDwJYutS8dF2AJiQ0ZNUaAi4MEALw_wcB) – grandparents love putting those antimaccassars on chairs.
Not sure on typical cupboards as one set of grandparents barely updated their house, and my other grandma sold up and moved into a new place in the late 80s.
As far as lamps go, I would definately say the [PH5](https://www.lampemesteren.dk/ph-5-pendel-classic-white-louis-poulsen.aspx) (or anything by PH) and the [le Klint sax-lamp](https://www.lampemesteren.dk/le-klint-sax-234-6/21-vaeglampe-le-klint/). Those are old but classic designs – especially the PH5 is still pretty popular. In fact i have them above the kitchen table myself just like my grandmother had, which I think is pretty awesome.
no idea about lamps, but I swear every old person’s home I’ve been to has had a replica of [this painting](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Ferdinand_von_Wright_-_Taistelevat_metsot_-_1886_-_oljymaalaus_-_Ateneumin_taidemuseo.png/1200px-Ferdinand_von_Wright_-_Taistelevat_metsot_-_1886_-_oljymaalaus_-_Ateneumin_taidemuseo.png) in some form