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Reclaimed Beauty UK brand Skinflint salvages vintage beauties and restores them to their former glory with updated LED fittings. The Industrial LED Lighting by Benjamin is its latest success.
Skinflint is one of Europe’s leading vintage lighting retailers with more than 10 years’ experience in salvaging vintage lighting pieces across the UK and reinvigorating them for the modern market. It is also the only vintage lighting retailer to be accredited by the UK LIA (Lighting Industry Association), ensuring that all of its lights are expertly restored to modern standards for faultless functionality. Co-Founder Chris Miller has more than two decades of experience in the lighting industry, working with some of the top names including Isometrix Lighting and Design and iGuzzini UK, and leading architects Foster + Partners and designer Philippe Starck. He sits down with darc to discuss one of their newest reclamation projects, the 1960s
Taskmaster Flurolier pendant by British lighting brand Benjamin. Now known as the Industrial LED Lighting by Benjamin, a large run of these pendants were rescued from the recently demolished Eggborough Power Station in Yorkshire, UK. “Sourcing and salvaging lights has taken us to intriguing locations across the world and sometimes just getting permission to access these sites can take months,” says Miller. “Once the lights arrive safely back in our Cornish workshop, the meticulous process of restoration begins. Sometimes the whole process can take many months or even years. Each product we salvage and restore is a truly unique piece, with its own individual story and character. This is celebrated by retaining
