Have you ever spent spent an idle moment attaching lots of safety pins together in a vain attempt to convince yourself you’re being tidy and organised when actually you’re just having a bit of a skive? Well most of us, I reckon, string the pins together, drop them in the drawer and then forget about it and go back to whatever we were doing in the first place.
Not Sarah Colson. She makes lights. Pendant lights that look like they have been woven from metal lace until you get up a bit closer and realise that they are safety pins.
Pretty aren’t they? The collection was launched at Milan earlier this year and can be customised to suit requirements. The range was born out of an investigation into finding value and beauty in everyday objects, says Sarah. The safety pin fabric sits over a blown glass dome creating a delicate web-like material. The form of the light is created from a variety of glass forms, hand blown in London.
The lights are finished with brass or silver safety pins and a selection of fabric coated cables can be offered in a range of colours.
I think they would be so pretty in a bedroom. I love the wall light version with the cables arranged on the wall making an extra design feature in themselves. They cost, by the way, £469 from Clippings or you can visit Sarah’s website to see her other work.
