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Why Trainspotters? The story of the luggage rack…
This is the perennial question we face from our customers, and a very natural one to ask given that we deal in industrial and salvaged lighting and have very little to do with trains. Much to the dismay of the occasional excited enthusiast we still get turning up at the door. The name does however have railway related origins.
Initial take-up was slow, with even some big design houses finding it hard to re-imagine these reclaimed retro workhorses in a new context. We stuck to our guns and the sales started to drift in. One notable early customer being Jamie Oliver who bought a couple for his own kitchen at home, often viewable over his shoulder on his subsequent TV shows.
In the process of setting up a website to market the racks we plucked upon a (we thought) witty name and went with it. By the time industrial lighting started joining the show a few months later we were up and running with the name Trainspotters, and it stuck.
The original luggage racks ended up flying off the shelves to the extent that we now produce a faithful British-made re-make, the length shortened slightly for convenience. See them here
Ever wondered what happens to all of those coloured plastic (polypropylene) chairs that you used to slouch on at school? Thanks to chair manufacturers Kirkhouse in collaboration with Optimus Education Foundation many are now avoiding landfill and finding new homes
A very good question! And one we get asked an awful lot. But here’s the interesting bit – dimming has very little to do with our light fittings themselves! Dimmability is about three closely-related components – wiring to the light, the switch that controls the light, and the bulb inside the light. Perhaps not what …
The Backstory Over the years we’ve handled some incredible vintage glass lighting. From decorative Holophane pendants salvaged from Victorian churches to industrial explosion-proof beasts rescued from factories in Eastern Europe. Along the way we’ve developed a particular penchant for hand-blown glass. And so over recent years we’ve been building a range of hand blown lights, …
On our travels in the former Eastern Bloc we see some incredible industrial buildings in various states of disrepair. The legendary Jawa motorbike factory once employed a whole town but has now reduced to a work force of just 150
Why Trainspotters? The story of the luggage rack…
This is the perennial question we face from our customers, and a very natural one to ask given that we deal in industrial and salvaged lighting and have very little to do with trains. Much to the dismay of the occasional excited enthusiast we still get turning up at the door. The name does however have railway related origins.
Initial take-up was slow, with even some big design houses finding it hard to re-imagine these reclaimed retro workhorses in a new context. We stuck to our guns and the sales started to drift in. One notable early customer being Jamie Oliver who bought a couple for his own kitchen at home, often viewable over his shoulder on his subsequent TV shows.
In the process of setting up a website to market the racks we plucked upon a (we thought) witty name and went with it. By the time industrial lighting started joining the show a few months later we were up and running with the name Trainspotters, and it stuck.
The original luggage racks ended up flying off the shelves to the extent that we now produce a faithful British-made re-make, the length shortened slightly for convenience. See them here
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Ever wondered what happens to all of those coloured plastic (polypropylene) chairs that you used to slouch on at school? Thanks to chair manufacturers Kirkhouse in collaboration with Optimus Education Foundation many are now avoiding landfill and finding new homes
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A very good question! And one we get asked an awful lot. But here’s the interesting bit – dimming has very little to do with our light fittings themselves! Dimmability is about three closely-related components – wiring to the light, the switch that controls the light, and the bulb inside the light. Perhaps not what …
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The Backstory Over the years we’ve handled some incredible vintage glass lighting. From decorative Holophane pendants salvaged from Victorian churches to industrial explosion-proof beasts rescued from factories in Eastern Europe. Along the way we’ve developed a particular penchant for hand-blown glass. And so over recent years we’ve been building a range of hand blown lights, …
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