Journey to the Bauhaus
Join us on a design pilgrimage to the heart of the Bauhaus, as we uncover the movement that left a lasting impact on industrial and interior design, including many of the vintage lights we salvage and restore today.
The creators who put Czechoslovakian design on the map
Inspiring our latest Czech Creators vintage lighting collection, join us on a trip to the National Technical Museum in Prague, where we uncover 20th century metalworkers Franta Anýž, NAPAKO and Josef Hůrka’s greatest works.
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Art Deco lights: Standing the test of time
Art Deco pieces aren’t just unique for their aesthetic; our new Art Deco Collection features vintage lights with remarkable salvage stories from the little county of Norfolk, UK…
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Fawley Power Station: Salvaging Vintage Lights from an Industrial Icon.
The vintage lights we’ve salvaged from the now demolished Fawley Power Station are ingrained with the iconically industrial story of their birthplace. Join us on our journey through this exceptional site.
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A final farewell to RAF Scampton
A journey through time of this iconic site, from the launch-pad of The Dambuster Raid, to the home of the Red Arrows - and the lucky salvage of an astonishing array of airfield runway lights.
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The History of Art Deco Lighting
Tracing the history of Art Deco lighting and the iconic design aesthetic to piece together the story of our newly restored pieces in our collection.
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A history of heat lamps
From the Ancient Egyptians to modern-day uses - Dr. Tania Woloshyn traces the fascinating medical history of our heat lamps.
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Czech Bohemian glass: Tracing the origins of a collector’s piece
Salvaging our vintage 1960s Bohemian glass chandeliers and pendant lights sets our lighting experts on a journey to discover more about the illustrious movement.
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‘End of an era’: Salvaged lights from Eggborough Power Station
We dig deep into the history of coal-fired Eggborough Power Station - an iconic and recently demolished iconic Yorkshire landmark that was once home to our latest haul of salvaged lights.
Architecture| Lighting History
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.
Architecture| Lighting History
Inspiring greatness: Lighting up Rolls-Royce
Unearthing archive photographs of our vintage lights in situ at one of our all-time favourite salvage locations - the Rolls Royce site in Derby.
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Swan Lane Mills: The story of a cotton mill and our pendant lights
Salvaging lights takes us to the most intriguing locations. As part of our Industrial Heritage Collection, we step inside the 19th century Swan Lane Mills in Bolton - once the largest cotton spinning mill in the world.
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The history behind our 1950s industrial Lobnitz Dock pendant lights
Our latest industrial pendant lights take us into the rich past of the Lobnitz Dock, a 19th century shipyard located on the River Clyde.
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The restoration story of our SS20 Collection
Our vintage lighting experts delve into original manufacturers’ catalogues in order to restore the Art Deco tiered pendant lights in our newly launched SS20 collection.
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REVO classic British industrial lighting
Spanning 60 years and two World Wars, REVO lights encompass a huge range of design styles. Here's a short history of an iconic brand that is as popular today as it ever was.
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American Portable Runway Light
A short history of the rare U.S.A.F. 'Bartow' or HILV landing light.
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A history of angled ceiling lights
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.
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Vintage British lighting brands: a short history
Britains fast, competitive industrial lighting sector in the mid-20th century means there are often distinctive vintage lighting designs to be found today.
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The Douglas motorcycle factory lights
The classic British motorcycle the Douglas is a piece of British history in it's own right. The lights we have sourced illuminated the workshop floor as the 3000 strong team built motorcycles from the early 1920's until the factory closed in the 1950's.
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Fire brigade Search light
One of the rarities we are occasionally lucky enough to find are searchlights; large in scale t...
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US 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.
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Perihel Sunlamp and Mixray
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.
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The Benjamin Electric Lighting Company
The Benjamin Electric Lighting company was founded in the late 19th Century by Reuben Berkley Benjamin in Chicago, Illinois. The companies success lead to expantion from Chicago to New York, San Francisco, Toronto, London & Birmingham.
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Images from our Vintage Pifco Heatlamp catalogue
A lovely selection if images from our original 1960's Pifco Infradette catalogue
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Holophane' a short History Of Prismatic Lighting
Holophane began to manufacture prismatic shades pretty much at the birth of electricity. Prismatic shades break up and spread the beam of light into a myriad of beams using prisms, making a lower voltage bulb a more effective light source.
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