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Frankfurter Allee 6
Berlin-Friedrichshain

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Lights for places people come back to

I make lamps for cafes, bars, restaurants, hotels and offices, from pieces that already exist or from an object your place already owns. One piece for the entrance, or a family of them for the tables.

Tell me about your room See the pieces

Not sure which?

You run or furnish a place and want finished pieces: you’re in the right place.

You have an object of your own to turn into a light: that’s a commission.

You’re a designer or architect: everything you need for a presentation is further down.

The Empress chandelier switched on, under a plaster ceiling rose
The Empress, 80 x 80 x 80 cm, 6x G9 LED. Real photo.

How it works

  1. Tell me about the room

    A few lines, the city, how many pieces, when you need them. Photos help.

  2. I suggest pieces

    From the collection: lit, with sizes, within a week. A new piece takes longer, and we agree the timing first.

  3. See them

    At the studio in Friedrichshain, switched on, with your designer or your business partner if you like.

  4. Price and date, in writing

    Delivery and installation in Berlin included in the quote.

Tell me about your room
The Pink Camel's red front in Prenzlauer Berg before it opened, a brass maze with small brass plant cups on the wall beside the window
The Pink Camel in Prenzlauer Berg, just before it opened: the brass plant holder on its red front. Real photo.

Made for a place

The Pink Camel, Prenzlauer Berg

For a friend’s restaurant I drew a brass maze straight onto its red front, built it in the studio and hung it with little brass cups for plants. Then I brought him a camel warning sign from Sinai, and it became the light by the door.

That is what I can make for a place: something that belongs to it, or to its owner, turned into the piece nobody else has.

Have something that belongs to your place?
The maze laid out in masking tape on the red wall, each segment marked with its length
First the lines in tape, straight on the wall. Real photo.
A triangular camel warning sign glowing pink on the red wall beside the open restaurant door at night
The camel sign from Sinai, lit pink by the door. Real photo.
The brass lines reworked into a ceiling light for a hallway, its bulbs lit
When the restaurant closed, the brass came down and became two lights for the owner’s home. This one is in the hallway. Real photo.
The second light from the same brass, with a red disc and large glass bulbs, on a living-room ceiling
And this one is on the living-room ceiling. Real photo.

A family of lights for one room

The whole shelf, all 50
Volt Meter, Once a volt meter, now a table lamp.Volt Meter40 x 21 x 19 cmMeat Grinder, Once a hand-cranked meat grinder, now a table lamp.Meat Grinder40 x 9 x 26 cmWatt Meter (Triangle), Once a watt meter, now a table lamp.Watt Meter (Triangle)42 x 22 x 10 cmZippo Gas Tank Lamp, Once a jerry can, now a table lamp.Zippo Gas Tank Lamp43 x 33 x 12 cmMad Hatter Chandelier, Once two hats and a porcelain rabbit, now a chandelier.Mad Hatter Chandelier100 x 49 x 5 cm

Three to five small pieces for the tables, each one of one, that read as a set because they share brass and warm light, not because they are the same object. Meters and a grinder, four heaters from four decades, telephones: whatever I can find in enough numbers. One statement piece over the bar finishes the room. Each piece keeps its own story. Together they give a place a character nobody else has.

Tell me the room and how many tables, and I’ll suggest a family that fits, and the one piece to finish it.

Ask about a family

Three ways in

One piece that already exists

50 pieces, each one of one, lit and photographed, with real dimensions. The piece on the way in, or over the table people book.

See the collection

A family for one room

Three to five related pieces, chosen together, for the tables, the bar or a row of booths.

How a family works

One Object, One Venue

Your place’s own object

The old till, the first coffee machine, the founder’s radio. I turn it into a light that belongs only to your room. It is made as a commission, and I look after the rest of the room around it.

How commissions work
Green Heater, Once a 1950s heater, now a floor lamp.70 cm40 cm

Messing AroundBerlin

Was
A 1950s heater
Now
Floor lamp
H x W x D
70 x 40 x 23 cm
Light
4x E27 Edison filament, 40 W
Edition
One of one

For designers and architects

What comes with every piece

  • Dimensions

    Height, width and depth in centimetres, with the size lines drawn on the photo.

  • Lamping

    Bulb type, number and wattage, and which switch does what.

  • Photos lit and unlit

    So you can show your client both.

  • A spec sheet

    Every piece page prints as one sheet with the photo, sizes and bulbs, ready for your presentation. Use “Print spec sheet” on the piece page.

  • An install note

    Plug-in, or for wall and hanging pieces, what the electrician needs.

  • Rewired

    New cables and sockets where a piece needs them.

Open the Green Heater

Tell me about your room

Three short things: your name, your email and a few lines about the project. I take it from there.

Prefer email?

Write to me at messing.around2022@gmail.com. Photos of the room are welcome.

Designers and venues

Terms on request. Ask in your message.

Bring your client

I’ll switch everything on at the studio. Ask for a visit.

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Thank you.

I read every message myself and reply within a week, with a few pieces that fit your room, lit, with sizes.