The Spong Mincer Lamp

Long before it gave light, this piece gave dinner. At its core sits a genuine antique mincer, a hand-cranked kitchen workhorse from another century, its cast housing still bearing the maker's name, its hand crank still turning exactly as it did in its first life. Rather than retire it to a shelf, it has been reborn as the heart of a fully working twin-light lamp.

Mounted on a solid wood backing, the original mincer body anchors two independent light arms, each fashioned from salvaged pipe fittings and finished in aged brass and iron tones. One arm rises high, the other reaches low and forward, an asymmetric composition that gives the piece real sculptural presence from every angle. Each is fitted with a protective wire cage housing an exposed filament bulb, the warm glow catching on the mincer's worn ivory-painted cast iron and the timber grain behind it.

The lamp stands on a reclaimed cast iron wheel base, its weathered green patina a striking contrast to the warm wood and brass above, itself a salvaged industrial component, repurposed as a stable, sculptural foundation.

This is a singular object. The Spong mincer at its heart is an original antique, found once and impossible to source again in this exact form. As with all pieces of this kind, no two will ever be alike, each is a one-of-a-kind work of recycled art, built from objects that have already lived full lives before this one.

Details:

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

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

• Handcrafted piece— assembled piece by piece, no two lamps identical

• Genuine antique mincer — original maker's casting intact, hand crank functional

• Twin independent light arms — built from salvaged pipe fittings

• Two illuminated heads — wire cage shades housing exposed Edison-style filament bulbs
  

A piece for those who see beauty in a life already lived, where an old kitchen tool becomes a sculptural source of light, and every patina, weld, and crank tells a story worth keeping.