Kate

At its base sits a genuine antique Belmont scale, its original arc dial still readable through the front panel, its brass top plate worn to a deep, uneven patina, its small drawer compartment still intact below the weighing surface, the whole body resting on its original cast iron feet. This is a shop or pharmacy scale of real age and genuine character, the kind that once sat on a counter and gave an honest reading to anyone who needed to know the true weight of something. It has not been cleaned or restored, every mark it carries is real, and that is precisely the point.

From the scale's brass top, a salvaged steel pipe structure rises and immediately branches into two independent arms of different character — one reaching high and left with a coiled flexible conduit section that gives it mechanical expressiveness, the other dropping lower and to the right on a straight arm — each carrying a wire cage shade and a warm filament bulb. Between them, a genuine reclaimed pressure gauge extends on a left-side brass arm, its aged dial face matching the scale's own quiet authority, while a salvaged red valve handle adds its familiar accent of colour at the branching point.

Two light heads, two different arms, one scale that once measured everything. The composition has the informal logic of something assembled with care rather than designed with intention, which is exactly what it is.

Details:

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

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

• Handcrafted piece — assembled piece by piece

• Genuine antique Belmont scale — original arc dial, brass top plate, and cast iron feet intact

• Twin asymmetric light arms — one with flexible coiled conduit section

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

• Genuine reclaimed pressure gauge — left-side brass arm

• Operable red valve handle — salvaged

• Salvaged steel pipe structure — hand-fitted

A scale that once gave honest readings, now it simply holds two warm points of light above everything it once measured.