Skinflint meets: Textile Designer Margo Selby
Read on to find out about how Margo started her business, why she rarely wears anything other than black, and which are her favourite Skinflint lights.
- Stuff We LoveSkinflint 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.
- Stuff We LoveSkinflint GECoRay collection
New to the collection are these Elegant Silver and copper examples of rare GEC GECoRay wall and ceiling lights:
- Stuff We LoveThe Rolls-Royce Collection
Our Spring/Summer collection for 2017 is salvaged from the mothballed Rolls-Royce factory in Derby, UK. Quite simply, it's one of the best collections in our history. The factory was built in 1908 to produce the Silver Ghost. But the plant cemented its legacy in the 1940s, by manufacturing the iconic Merlin engine, which powered the Hurricane, the Lancaster Bomber, and the Spitfire. Our reclaimed and restored lights from the factory include sizes and styles to suit most projects.
- NewsTop interiors and design blogs
At Skinflint we keep an eye on beautiful inspiring design blogs, looking for everything from furniture to textiles and we're always on the hunt for the rare and unusual.
- InteriorsArt Deco Lighting
Here at Skinflint we are big fans of Art Deco and the stylish lighting which was produced in what was actually a relatively short era of design history. Art Deco style really began in the post WW1 boom times of the roaring twenties. With electric light becoming widely available designers of lighting, both domestic and street, explored the evolving styles of the day with a new-found freedom...
- Stuff We LoveAmerican Portable Runway Light
A short history of the rare U.S.A.F. 'Bartow' or HILV light.
- Lighting HistoryThe 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 LoveBehind the scenes at our recent workshop photoshoot
A short 'behind the scenes' film from our recent workshop photo shoot, showing some of the processes our lights go through from their arrival to the finished product
- Stuff We LoveDunlop Aerospace Lights
Some images of the Dunlop Aerospace lights in their original setting.
- 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.
- ArchitectureVintage American traffic Lights
It's such an evocative image isn't it? The American traffic light hanging over the road, the stuff of so many films. That's exactly where our US traffic light pendants started their lives.Â
- Lighting HistoryOzone Coffee roasters
We recently supplied our lighting to East London Coffee Roasters Ozone, check out this short film explaining what they do and sneak a peek at our lovely lights in the background!
- Stuff We LoveThe Perihel Vintage Sunlamp
Perihel light therapy lamps are a rarity which we are occasionally lucky to find. They were manufactured in many different styles for home use from single head sun lamps to the deluxe twin headed infar red and ultraviolet. With their over engineered elegant detailing, these lamps were developed by Perihel for the once popular light therapy and were used both in hospital settings and at home.
- Lighting HistoryHolophane Decay
This shot was taken pre-referbishment. This particular fixture was from the National Turbine Test facilities at Pyestock, Fleet, UK. Circa 1950.
- Stuff We LoveLight Show: Hayward Gallery, London
Light Show opens at London's Hayward Gallery on Wednesday 30th January and explores the experiential and phenomenal aspects of light by bringing together sculptures and installations that use light to sculpt and shape space in different ways. We can't wait!
- Stuff We LoveGravityLight- inspirational design for developing countries
Here at Skinflint we love clever sustainable design and the GravityLight is both. Offering a real alternative to Africa's ubiquitous kerosene lamps, the only thing it uses is the force of gravity.
- Stuff We LoveEphemeral clouds: the art of Berndnaut Smilde
Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde's fascination with the ephemeral has led him to master the art of creating his own clouds.
- Stuff We LoveIs it the end for fluorescent lighting
Scientists in Wake Forest University in North Carolina have developed a alternative to fluorescent lighting using polymers.
- Stuff We LoveNo. 001: Prismalux Bulkhead by Wardle
A stop motion video documenting a Prismalux bulkhead during its restoration process.
- Stuff We LoveOriginal Pifco Heatlamp catalogue
A lovely selection if images from our original 1960's Pifco Infradette catalogue
- Lighting HistoryThink New: Climate change, Energy, Action
A lovely short animation about changing habits relating to CO2 consumption
- Stuff We LoveA Brilliant Idea: The LED Story
A beautiful short film, illustrating why LED bulbs are the future, saving the planet energy and CO2, and saving you money.
- Stuff We LoveMonumental Light: James Turrell's Skyspaces
James Turrell is an artist whose palette is the planet we live on. He makes light monumental and encourages his audience to look 'beyond', to see the extraordinary in the every day.
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