Unlikely Bedfellows

Scalextric launched a Will Gollop collectors edition today. As well as being a Rallycross champion and motorsport legend, Will is now in charge of production at Historic Lighting. He is also Sophie's dad. We feel very lucky to have him on board. The breadth and precision of what we are able to produce in metal just got a lot greater.


 

 

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Daniel Kitson | National Theatre | It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later

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Daniel Kitson is an awesome human being. Tonight is the last night of his National Theatre stage spectacular 'It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later'. It's been sold out for months - beg borrow or steal a ticket if you can. The lighting is better than fantastic. The production arrives in America in January, we've developed a special 110V version of the Globe 80 filament lightbulb for it.

Individually Personalised Moleskines - MoleskinePress.co.uk

We've invested our life savings in giving a home to the UK's largest collection of linotype machines. If we hadn't bought them they would have been scrapped. This film we're sponsoring (along with many other print nuts) explains linotypes better than we can.

We've launched moleskinepress.co.uk - step one of getting this historic collection back to work. You get a moleskine notebook, with your own text debossed on the cover next-day for £14.

 

 

Martin Scorsese | 'Hugo' | Premiere (Tonight)

Here are some (totally unofficial) stills from the Hugo trailer, the largest and most complex project we ever got involved in. Literally hundreds of Filament Lightbulbs and Historic Lighting fittings (see the long tubes in the clock face?). It's amazing. Go and see it. Official Hugo site here.

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Giraffe | Bath | Maria Tall Lights

A restaurant project with Ed Barker at Michaelis Boyd Associates. Fabric Cable and lots of it. Maria Wall Lights - extended and re-christened 'Maria Tall Lights' for tables / counters. Image 1, 2 & 3 © Obsession Images.

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Eavan English | Bel & Bellucci | Dublin

We highly regard Eavan English, the Dublin based interior designer. We worked together on the scheme for Bel & Bellucci (Ballsbrige eatery). The pizza - apparently - is very nearly as good as the lighting. The scheme will also be remembered because it is the last one ever concocted on our kitchen table at the flat in London. Images © Eavan English.


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