The impressive, 'retro-futuristic' Pop table lamp is mainly made out of light fixtures parts from the 60s: the base is adapted from a table lamp with a bright green wooden stem and a flat chrome foot, and the white plastic shade used to be the one of a ceiling mount lantern.
Other elements have a more unusual origin: the metallic cone from a bike horn (painted the same green as the lamp base), a thick chrome knob from a vintage hanger, the inox filter from an expresso coffee machine and a sink plug cover!
The shade is so wide (48cm diameter) that I was able to mount three porcelain bulb sockets underneath. The cord, switch and plug are transparent, to match the general look. It is 60cm high, and is good for reading as well as highly decorative!
But surely pictures will describe the Pop table lamp better:
Some pictures of the making process: the parts, before their transformation; rust in the original stem (I had to break the bulb socket to be able to take it off!); taking apart the coffee machine filter to use it as the cup; piercing it and sanding the sharp edges; drilling the hole in the sink plug cover that secures the shade -and finally mounting all the parts and wiring the lamp!
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