Vintage Industrial Lighting

Vintage lighting runs through our veins – for us, it’s where it all began.

Lighting with history

Trainspotters headed up the new vintage aesthetic of the early 2000s, bringing salvaged industrial to the mainstream with carefully sourced and expertly restored items at fair prices. Our expertise in finding large quantities of vintage industrial items meant the market was no longer niched to trade experts and antiques dealers, but available to anyone with an eye for the trend.

Popular culture influences

Pre-noughties lighting was in a nutshell, completely uninspiring! Buying ‘vintage’ lights meant lumping for poor quality cost-driven reproductions or out-dated Victoriana. The Cheers bar had lost its appeal and instead the red stone New York loft apartments of Friends and Sex In The City were the new go-to looks.

It was an exciting era and no location was out of bounds – vintage industrial lighting came from factories, churches and chapels, institutions, asylums and municipal streetscapes – all abandoned in favour of regeneration; yet all the time it was clear this was not a fly by night trend, each piece breathed integrity and they were exactly what people had been longing for.

A learning curve

The restoration process is a labour of love. Sourcing and buying (or as it’s otherwise referred to ‘reclaiming’) vintage lights is a skill but the refurbishment process to bring items back to their former glory is quite another story. It has taken years of trial and error to finely hone the talents that will ensure a vintage light looks both amazing and is inherently safe for the current market.

Lighting for life

Many resources are committed to perfecting the necessary techniques to provide top end vintage industrial lights. Sometimes there is an extra buzz of doing this for a rare or possible one-off item which is good enough to be lovingly restored and passed on to a new generation. 

And so, the love affair with vintage industrial lighting continues.