{"id":13592,"date":"2025-01-08T10:33:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T17:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13592"},"modified":"2025-02-16T10:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T17:36:35","slug":"the-disco-ball-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/01\/08\/the-disco-ball-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disco Ball Is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Architectural Digest<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Disco Ball Is Making a Playful Comeback<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A iconic nightclub staple is entering new territory: the home<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Hannah Martin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sean Rad and Lizzie Grover Rad\u2019s L.A. pad by Jane Hallworth.Sam Frost<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When Louis Bernard Woeste and William A. Stephens filed a patent for a so-called myriad reflector in 1916, the dawn of disco was still decades away. But their glittering mirror ball\u2014destined for ballrooms, nightclubs, dance pavilions, and skating rinks\u2014was made with revelry in mind. Shiny orbs hovered over bandstands hosting jazz musicians in the 1920s, twinkled above dancers\u00a0in\u00a0Casablanca<\/em>\u00a0(1942), and dazzled a club scene in\u00a0Some Like It Hot<\/em>\u00a0(1959).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the\u00a01970s<\/a>, when that super-glam, sparkly club culture\u2014disco!\u2014at last arrived, the mirror ball fit right in, a silvery staple of underground New York dance spots like The Loft, The Gallery, and, later, legendary nightclub\u00a0Studio 54<\/a>, where revelers grooved beneath its disorienting shimmer. (Studio 54\u2019s was made by Omega National Products in Louisville, Kentucky, famous today\u00a0for crafting disco balls for Beyonc\u00e9 and Madonna.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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