Steampunk style boiler lamp
A few weeks ago whilst I was exploring the Heights of Abraham in Matlock, Derbyshire, I received a Whatsapp message from a new customer, there was a photo of a large copper boiler and a request ''could you turn this boiler into an industrial looking lamp?''
My reply was - Absolutely I would love to do that!
The message was from Sue, she is a pub landlord, the boiler was taken from the inside of an old broken down coffee machine.
I love working with copper, and I am completely passionately-mad about industrial heritage, the age of steam and steampunk design.
How did we make this boiler into a quirky lamp?
After discussing some initial ideas with sue, how to configure the boiler, should it stand upright or lay on its side?
The boiler was just a plain copper cylinder, but it had so much character and charm.
There are two large pipe connections on one side which could act as feet for it to stand on, so the decision was made to have it horizontal. I used reclaimed scaffolding board as the base and away I went creating this amazing Steampunk lamp.
This was an amazing and fun lighting project to work on, Sue was happy to give me free-reign, I was just like an excited kid at Christmas, I found loads of cool bendy copper pipe, dials and pressure gauges.
I was able to add lots of quirky decorative features, brass fittings, stopcocks and valves to create a quirky eye-catching chaotic lamp, which looks like something straight out of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory!
A true engineering fantasy!
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