SKINFLINT LIGHTING

Skinflint unloved lamps

Based in Cornwall and working anywhere Skinflint rescue light fittings from disused buildings to supply private, corporate, commercial and theatrical clients with a characterful mix of fully restored lamps that might otherwise end up in landfill.

The dictionary definition of skinflint is someone who hates spending money, a miser or cheese-parer, adjusted here to the positive sense of not expending resources unneccessarily. More piggy-banking than penny-pinching, also making the case for the old and somewhat battered being quite as beautiful as the shiny brand new.

If you buy one of these lamps it comes with a lifetime guarantee including repairs and they will it buy it back when no longer needed. An excellent business format, keeping goods in use, preserving heritage, supporting skills and B Corps too.

Another business doing a similar rescue job is Antique Workshop in Saffron Walden; a new life for lamps, furniture and curiosities, perhaps also for the antiques trade which became less fashionable during the Ikea-years, never completely went away, and is back now to suit a new era of collecting and re-use.

Skinflint we don’t make lights, we find them
Antiques Workshop lighting, clocks, curiosities
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