Lighting up Squid Flip: How I got into lamps

A couple years ago I spent the day with my Great Uncle David and Aunt Carla in Melrose, Massachusetts. David is a talented electrician who has worked in the trade for many years.

My idea had been to learn from him how to transform cool things into lamps, cast a light of relics of the past — and upshift them into real statement pieces.

As a veteran election, he helped me to understand not only how wiring works, but also safety and how to use the flow of a piece to get a both practical and cool factor.

We started with a 1970s camera, and then progressed to a 1960 Italian wine bottle, a 1950 iron, and even a cast iron jack for cars.

The idea was to follow on my belief that old objects can be reborn and renewed, and if you take a special item and make a one-of kind lamp out of. I love the high quality wood and iron mannequin I turned into a lamp, it is really more of a work of art that anything else.

So take look, and remember that I am happy to do commissions, and help you rethink something that means a lot, but does not have a purpose, and electrify it.