This whimsical lamp, sculptural and functional, provides a good ambient light in the corner of a room. It is made with a real wildebeest skull with an extended, war-like, wooden laminated, spike filled snout. This changes the perception of the wildebeest from that of victim to aggressor.
I brought home a Thai umbrella and decided to incorporate it into a lamp. It creates an ambient light within a room or entry way. The base is made from the inner core of a fir tree which had been exposed by African termites, leaving a series of lateral branch nodes onto which wooden knobs could be fitted to form a coat and hat stand.
This lamp is a mixture of African hardwoods: mahogany, olive wood and jacaranda. The light source was created by taking a normal outdoor light sphere and making it the focal point of a hand held meteorite. The original inspiration came out of the shape of the piece of jacaranda I carved. Essentially, these are all pieces of salvaged wood.
The shade of this lamp is made from a wooden bowl used by the early Zimbabwean miners to pan for gold. The holes drilled in the bowl for filtration of sand grains create perfect exit holes for heat build up within the lamp. The base is made from a section of water cured mopane root and trunk. It is marginally adjustable and is perfect as bedside reading lamp or as a feature in a living room.
My intention here was to form a functional lamp which can delicately place a pool of light in a small area across a long span. The lamp can stand in one corner and the light shine in the other. This whimsical lamp is made out of found parts, shaped timber and commissioned stone. It was an evolutionary process using some wonderful old mechanical parts and inventing counterweights and a system to deliver and hold the lamp at the end of a long, lightweight arm.
This large lamp is made from a riverine mopane wood stump, mahogany and jacaranda, with a counter weight from Honduran rosewood. It is mounted on a set of concealed rollers and is fully height and angle adjustable. It is very functional as well as decorative. It casts a perfect reading light exactly where needed.