Diana

Diana

$900.00
Sale price  $900.00 Regular price 
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Diana

Diana

$900.00
Sale price  $900.00 Regular price 

At its base sits a genuine antique public payphone, its original green body, numeric keypad, coin return slot, coiled handset cord, and original "Kembali Coin" branding plate all fully intact exactly as they were when this phone last connected a call on a street corner somewhere. The green is not decorative, it is the original factory colour, worn and sun-faded into the particular depth that years of outdoor exposure produce, a surface that carries the fingerprints, the weather, and the urgency of everyone who once fed it a coin and dialled a number they needed to reach.

From the payphone's body, a salvaged steel pipe structure rises and branches into three independent arms at varying heights, each holding a wire cage shade and a warm filament bulb. The three light heads are arranged in a loose cascade — one high, two lower — their warm amber glow falling across the phone's green body below with a quality that makes the entire piece feel lit from within rather than from above. A genuine reclaimed pressure gauge extends to the right on a brass arm, its clean white face a quiet counterpoint to the vivid green of the phone beneath it.

This is one of the collection's most immediately recognisable bases, an object so embedded in daily urban life that its transformation into a lamp feels simultaneously surprising and inevitable. The payphone asked for coins. Now it asks for nothing.

Details:

  • One of a kind — this exact phone will never be reproduced

  • Recycled Art — pipe fittings, gauge, valve, and brackets all reclaimed

  • Handcrafted piece — assembled piece by piece

  • Genuine antique public payphone — original green body, keypad, coin return, coiled cord and branding plate intact

  • Three independent light arms — varying heights, salvaged steel pipe

  • Wire cage shades — housing exposed Edison-style filament bulbs

  • Genuine reclaimed pressure gauge — right-side brass arm

  • Salvaged steel pipe structure — hand-fitted

 

A payphone that once connected strangers, now it simply glows, and needs no coins to do it.

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