Dua

At the center of this lamp sits a genuine antique hand pump body, its original red paint worn through to bare metal in all the places a working hand would have gripped it, its cast lever and body still bearing the maker's lettering pressed into the iron. This was a tool that moved something — grease, oil, fuel — through repeated, physical labour, and that history is written into every chip and scratch on its surface.

From the pump's crown, a salvaged pipe arm bends gracefully upward and over, terminating in a wire cage shade that holds a single warm filament bulb at a deliberate, downward angle, directing its light exactly where a task lamp should. Beside the pump, a genuine reclaimed pressure gauge sits mounted at eye level, while below, a salvaged red valve handle adds a second, smaller note of the same color that anchors the composition above.

The base is solid reclaimed timber, raw and substantial, supported by two salvaged tap-style feet at either end, a detail that gives the piece genuine workshop character, as though it were simply lifted from a bench rather than designed for a shelf. Every component here was found, not fabricated: the pump, the gauge, the valve, the taps, the timber, all genuinely salvaged and reassembled into a single, compact, characterful lamp.

As with every piece in this collection, this exact combination of salvaged parts will never be repeated.

Details:

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

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

• Handcrafted piece — assembled piece by piece

• Antique hand pump body — original red paint patina and maker's lettering intact

• Single angled pipe arm — salvaged brass and steel fittings

• Wire cage shade — housing an exposed Edison-style filament bulb

• Genuine pressure gauge and red valve handle

• Solid reclaimed timber plank base — raw finish

• Salvaged tap-style feet — two-point support

• Dimensions — 48 x 27 x 55 cm

A pump that once moved fuel by hand — now it moves only light, and asks nothing more of the room than a plug socket.