Evelyn
The body of this piece is a genuine reclaimed guitar-shaped metal panel, cut from salvaged vintage signage and left in its found condition — chipped enamel, rust bleed, and weathered lettering all preserved exactly as discovered. Original tuning pegs, string posts, and a working-style bridge remain fitted to the neck, giving the silhouette its full instrument presence despite its second life as light.
From the headstock and neck, aged brass and blackened pipework branches outward in four directions, each hand-bent through its own sequence of turns before ending in a cage-guarded pendant bulb, the four lights arranged asymmetrically around the guitar's form like notes scattered across a stave. The whole piece stands on a hand-formed wire coil base, its loops and curls echoing the string tension of the instrument above.
No signage panel weathers or chips the same way twice, and this particular body, hardware, and pipe run were shaped entirely around what survived. This is a singular object, existing in exactly one configuration.
Details
- One-of-a-kind industrial lamp, hand-assembled from a genuine reclaimed guitar-shaped signage panel
- Original enamel finish, natural rust and paint loss preserved
- Original tuning pegs, string posts, and bridge hardware retained
- Reclaimed brass and blackened pipework, hand-formed branching arms
- Four independent cage-guarded pendant bulbs, asymmetrical arrangement
- Hand-formed wire coil base
- Fully rewired and certified for safe domestic use
- Part of The Galleria's Industrial Collection — Lighting