The Concrete apartment in Nagoya Japan
One of our recent projects is The Concrete Apartment in Nagoya, Japan: designed by Keiichi Kiriyama of Airhouse Design Office.
ArchitectureAsylum wall lights
Some of the history behind our English wall mounted reading lights which were salvaged from a Victorian lunatic asylum in the Midlands, UK. Circa 1950. Widely utilised
ArchitectureDunlop Aerospace Lights
Some images of the Dunlop Aerospace lights in their original setting.
ArchitectureCockenzie Power Station
The team at skinflint were thrilled to salvage the majority of the lights from the former power station at Cockenzie in Scotland. Many well known lighting brands such as Benjamin, Lacent and Holophane were installed to illuminate cavernous halls that once echoed with the roar of turbines powered by coal fired furnaces.
ArchitectureCockenzie in pictures
The team at skinflint were thrilled to salvage the majority of the lights from the former power station at Cockenzie in Scotland. Here we present a small collection of images of the Power station's monumental exterior and evocative interior.
ArchitecturePirelli Factory Warehouses
Beautiful images of the derelict interior of the Pirelli Factory and warehouses in Burton On Trent.
ArchitectureVintage British Lighting
Here at skinflint we have always been fascinated by the history of British manufacturing. Many of the vintage lights we salvage come from the old industrial heartland of England where factories now stand empty. These images show you a few of the settings our lights originally called home.
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