Axis Table Lamp

I do like metallic lamps -If you have been following this blog for a while you have probably noticed this tendency of mine. If not, here you have that fact, ha ha. Chromed parts, no matter their humble origins, can make especially handsome lamps, and they look great mixed with any colour, any glass shade -providing that one takes special care with shape and proportions, of course!

The Axis table lamp is an example of this elegant Art Deco-like result, achieved by using modest, unusual parts: just the base (taken from a vintage 'horror' from the 70s) and the milk glass shade (that used to belong to a plain ceiling light fixture) are actual lamp parts. The rest are, going upwards, a white bakelite ring (from a broken bulb socket), two vintage bicycle hubs with a white plastic ring in between, and an aluminium cake mold with a rubber trim.

The matching white bakelite bulb socket, cord, switch and plug are all new. Measures: 39cm high, 17cm the base diameter, 26cm the glass shade diameter.

Here is the Axis table lamp, in full detail:

The parts that I finally ended up using, and some others that got discarded from the final form: I always start with a large number of pieces that may serve to conform the idea that I have in mind, then I narrow the possibilities as I try them on -'cause you never know how a new design is going to look like till you actually try it!

Polishing the bicycle hubs till they shine again; cutting the central pipe (where the wire goes) to measure

Gluing the rubber trim to the cake mold to ensure a perfect grip for the milk glass shade; wiring the lamp.