Custom Lighting is Art Malcolm Cressy founded Malder Lighting showroom and workshop thirty two years ago. Best known for their custom lighting based on historical fixtures, bay area homeowners, architects and Interior designers have relied on Malder Lighting for a wide range of services. Table lamp rewiring, to the design and production of nine foot tall lighting fixtures, Malder can produce or restore any lighting imaginable. INSTUDIO design directors Samuel Fleming Lewis and Stephen Kladder like that the unique collections have a gesture towards traditional style yet are crafted with a creative eye. Some of the pendant fixtures were developed with recycled steel parts that were restored or converted to lighting. Five years ago a young man named Noal Elkins walked into Malder Lighting from a referral. His background and work history not only included electrical wiring but an interest in records, playing music, vintage mechanical parts, fashion, motorcycle repair, working with his hands, furniture restoration and shopping Paris flea markets. Malcolm just happened to need an assistant and Noal was hired. When not building or restoring custom lighting, Noal creates unique light fixtures of his own design that reflect his varied interests. His creations include standard lighting parts and salvaged finds along with Edison style light bulbs. The creativity of these
extraordinary light fixtures cannot be ignored. The window display draws people into the showroom. Samuel likes the fact that the new lighting looks both old and new at the same time. Rusted metal balls suspended by individual wires that are bound together have a tribal, vintage and scientific impression. A pair of speaker horns from the nineteen twenties assembled as lampshades over bulbs on skinny mechanical arms as a pendant fixture recalls an early industrial past. The polished steel balls of a wall sconce with a glass dome looks like a vintage science fiction robotic arm repurposed as lighting. Other pendant fixtures include an art deco looking fixture composed of new lighting parts in polished steel with three tall clear glass tubes of light; a large ring of dark thick jute rope is conceived as a chandelier that gives a nod to nautical, western, country and vintage designs all at the same time. Malder Lighting, 285 7th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, 4156269492 http://vandm.com/The_Malder_Company Need help selecting special fixtures? instudiosf.com