vintage-retro-antique-furniture: December 2009

about elemental

Established 12 years ago in Spitalfields East London elemental is an interiors and design store with a reputation as source of the unusual and unique.
www.elemental.uk.com

We search for vintage and antique pieces. We sympathetically restore them, or sometimes reinterpret them. We recycle, upcycle, reuse and reconstruct. We collaborate with other craftspeople and designers who share our approach. We showcase and sell the work of other designers and artists in our East London showroom.

December 22, 2009

Foundary Truck

Possibly the most heavy duty foundary cart we have ever seen rolled into our east london workshop this morning. Here is a sneak preview.

It will make an astounding vintage industrial centre piece.

Keep an eye on the new arrivals page on our website where it will be posted when complete - if it isn't purchased before.

December 21, 2009

industrial age table saw

This cast iron industrial relic is one of the more unusual pieces we have seen this year.

Once upon a time it would have been driven by a belt in a Lancashire saw mill. Now destined to be a decorative merchandising piece for a vintage clothes store.

December 01, 2009

Norman Ackroyd's Open Studio

We were invited by our friend Norman Ackroyd RA to share a mince pie at his open studio event last weekend.

His print studio is spread over the two lower floors of a ramshackle converted Victorian factory building in Southwark. It is a great space. Aside from the display of his delicate and refined etchings and paintings we were particularly impressed with his cast-iron printing presses on the ground floor. Well-oiled and still working.

Norman's studio is full of rare objects. Our eyes caught a few of them and they are for us a real source of inspiration...Here they are scattered on improvised shelves inbetween bits and bobs. Can you spot them?