Glass Insulator lamps 240V in E14 and E27 fittings have been the focus this week.
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The dollar cost of using Edison Light bulbs
The dollar cost of using Edison Light bulbs has largely been smothered by all the talk of efficiencies and greenhouse emissions. Hysteria seems to abound when it comes to the humble light globe. What we need to focus on is just how much one of these old style bulbs will cost to run. According to [...]
Tomodachi Japanese restaurant makeover
Tomodachi Japanese restaurant makeover design and work completion has been performed by the good folks at StudioMKZ. It was a simple upgrade to the existing 300sqm. The Tomodachi Japanese restaurant is up at Broadway Shopping Centre. Shown here are images of the New Brass E27 lampholders and some larger exotic bulbs like the Plum spiral [...]
Brass cage Steampunk Wall Light
Brass cage Steampunk Wall Light design is coming along and you can now have a better look at the design soon to be released. We have been working on a prototype build and also working on some variations both in overall size and materials and colors. We assumed a bronze color and bronzed brass backing [...]
Original Edison Swan Electric Co Ltd Lamp
An original Edison Swan Electric Co Ltd Lamp turned up in an estate this week and we were lucky enough to examine the contents and packaging. There is a great deal of quite interesting history surrounding this particular lamp and the Johseph Swan Thomas Edison corporate and scientific relationship. The light globe we have is [...]
Nud Classic collection ceramic lampholders and coloured cord
Nud Classic collection ceramic lampholders and coloured cord look great in a more contemporary home. We are attempting to get as many variations of color as we can and photograph some with our specialist Edison Style Globes. Whilst not as efficient as a modern flourecent bulb they are intended for special bare bulb type presentation and [...]
Color perception and incandecent light
Color perception is a tricky thing. Our brain does a great job at smoothing and correcting for color shift so that we perceive white light as much as possible. Colors look fairly normal to us under Incandescent light but not so with florescent. Good article from Russia here regarding the nature of incandescent Vs Florescent [...]
Steampunk show, Steamscape opening at Post Industrial Design.
Steampunk show, Steamscape opening at Post Industrial Design goes OFF. What a great turnout tonight for the Steamscape Exhibition. Around 500 people turned up to see the Clockwork Butterfly fashion parade, the exhibition of Steampunk art and design, live music from the Penny Dreadfuls and the voice of our own Katie Haughton. The exhibition showed [...]
Steampunk lighting style at Steamscape Exhibition.
At Post Industrial Design in Footscray in March we are showing a range of lighting components with the work of sculptor Jos Van Hulsen.
Restored pottery lamp with bakelite and Edison bulb
A Restored pottery lamp with bakelite and Edison bulb looks great with the larger Plum spiral type globe. This a metalic glaze 70′s type lamp and we fitted a switched bakelite lampholder and rewired in 3 core brown braided flex. These bulbs tend to go a gold color over time as the tungsten vaporizes on [...]
