Lighting up London’s entertainment industry
Theatre legend and iconic entertainment landmarks - a trip into our lighting archive reveals the fascinating heritage behind our vintage theatre lighting collection.
Lighting HistoryA history of angled enamel shades
Originally designed to illuminate signs, shop windows and industrial workspaces of an increasingly urbanised early twentieth-century Britain - as this trip into the skinflint lighting archive illustrates.
Lighting HistoryThe 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.
Architectureskinflint Meets: Tom Raffield, Designer and Maker
We catch up with fellow Cornish-based designer Tom Raffield and chat all things wood, trends and collaborations.
skinflint Meetsskinflint Meets: Design Journalist Katie Treggiden
We catch up with design journalist Katie Treggiden, and chat everything from studying Design History at Oxford to designers she’d invite to dinner.
skinflint MeetsAsylum 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
ArchitectureThe Pyestock story
The latest collection from the skinflint workshop comprises entirely of lights from one specific location: The National Gas Turbine Establishment, known simply as Pyestock, it was the place the jet engine as we know it was nurtured and grew to supersonic speeds.
Stuff We LoveDunlop 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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