large polished aluminium polish street light pendant light

Reference 14_2033

Polish street Lights. Circa 1950

Era: 1950s Origin: Poland

Decommissioned Polish street lanterns. Substantial two part polished aluminium enclosure with original convex etched glass lens.

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detail ofpolish street light with convex etched glass

polish street light with convex etched glass

large polished aluminium polish street light pendant lights

detail of gallery on polish street light

Origin: Poland

Many of the products we salvage and restore from the former Eastern Bloc were produced in Poland. As with the majority of lights designed and manufactured under Communist rule - during the period from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin wall - they are defined by a clean industrial aesthetic, with the same design often manufactured in three scaled versions to cater for varying bulb wattage.

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Restoration

Once we’ve salvaged a collection of lights, we bring them home to our studio and begin the slow process of restoration. Each light is disassembled and we examine every component for damage and flaws, so we know which can be kept, and which need to be replaced. We then hand over to our experts – in-house and locally – to carefully restore each component by hand. That often begins with soda-blasting (an environmentally friendly way to remove old paint), before hand-polishing, lacquering and rewiring.