Press
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A selection of recent coverage
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Living Etc: August 2010
Grand Designs: July 2010
Details: Everything you need to go from first to final fix. History repeating give your Grand Design some character with reclaimed lights from Skinflintdesign. The company trawls factories and warehouses across Europe and updates stock weekly..... Look out for the company in the new series of TV's Grand Designs later this year- it supplied lights for one of the houses and was recently filmed for the episode.
World of Interiors: May 2010
The Observer on Sunday: May 2010
Guardian and Observer Guide to Vintage and Antiques:
Supplier of Vintage lighting to everyone from private customers to museums. Whether you are after floor, ceiling or wall mounted lamps, owners Sophie and Chris Miller are sure to have something of interest.
Sunday Telegraph. Stella: April 2010
40 Best Interiors Addresses by Gareth Wyn Davis Think old Anglepoises, Bauhaus style desk lamps, and Opaline globes that would be perfect for hanging in a row down a hall or over a kitchen worktop
Period Living: May 2010
Industrial Lighting lights designed for the workplace are a practical choice for your home ‘factory and workshop lights look particularly good in hard-working areas of your home such as the kitchen, family dining room or study’
Antique Explorer: March 2010
Bright Ideas
‘Clean lines and rich patinas. Industrial lighting is elegant in its simplicity....also because they were actually used in factories they function extremely well.’
Design Week: January 2010
Lighting Design group SKINFLINT launches its latest range of light fittings this week
Cornwall Today: December 2009
This month’s must have:
‘Reclaimed Lighting. Restoration gives these wonderful fittings a new lease of life as well as cult status.’
Elle Decoration: December 2009
Vintage Vision
‘if it’s too cold to hit the streets looking for vintage go online! For lighting visit Skinflint Design’
Vogue: November 2009
More Dash Than Cash Vogue’s A-Z of pound-saving tricks ‘I for Interiors- the fittings look fresh and distinctive and cost far less
than a designer shade’
Lighting: October 2009
‘taking a break from running his unique business selling reclaimed lighting Chris Miller talks to Andy Rennison about working
from the beach, beating the recession and the Bond background of his business partner’
Homes & Garden: October 2009
H&G Web interview with Jane Akkers skinflintdesign.co.uk Sophie and Chris Miller’s website offers lighting that has been
carefully restored without losing any character.
How did Skinflint Design Evolve? My experience as a lighting designer and Sophie’s as a stylist and art director drew us
towards this niche area. We share a love of both the design and history of period lighting sand its restoration, so all items
on our website are original having been updated to current environmental specifications…
The Times: September 30th 2009
Daily Universal Register Web search Skinflint- skinflint designs and deals in 20th century reclaimed lighting and salvaged lights.
You can buy quirky industrial looking lamps: ceiling and wall lights made from polished aluminium and glass American Naval
Bulkheads: and lamps reclaimed from factories and Victorian era hospitals.
The Sunday Times, Home: September 6th 2009
‘shine on’
The Cornish based duo Chris and Sophie Miller specialise in reclaimed lighting. They source products across Europe from the
former Eastern Bloc to Victorian Hospitals and rewire them and update them to take modern bulbs.
Cornish World: September 2009
Something different… beautiful salvaged lighting from SKINFLINT original 1920’s prismatic lighting salvaged from Cornish
churches, industrial factory lights and reclaimed lighting from Victorian hospitals- these and much more feature in the eclectic
and everchanging collection from exciting new lighting brand SKINFLINT.
Grand Designs: August 2009
“NewsFlash’ Get one of a kind finds for your home at skinflintdesigns online shop which sells restored lights from schools
churches hospitals and more.
The Sunday Times, Style: August 23 2009
Interiors ‘Get The Look’ the Ideas Lab
Home Building and Renovating: August 2009
“On The Web’ lighting- from original Art Deco fixtures to 1960’s German table lamps or lights sourced from the MOD
skinflintdesign.co.uk is a treasure trove of unique, reclaimed and salvaged lighting for the home.
Telegraph Magazine: July 2009
David Nicholls Design Notebook ‘Light Relief’ Skinflintdesign is a new website that specialises in unusual reclaimed lighting from
the mid 20th Century. There are pendants, floor lights and desk lamps from hospitals, churches and old factories all restored
and rewired for modern use.
Design Week: July 2009
Lighting Design group SKINFLINT is set to launch reclaimed factory light shades from the now defunct lighting manufacturer REVO.