{"title":"Lighting","description":"One-of-one vintage and mid-century lighting: table, industrial and task lamps.","products":[{"product_id":"planet-lamp-mustard","title":"Planet Lamp, Mustard","description":"\u003cp\u003eA proper working lamp from one of the most recognised names in Australian mid-century lighting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlanet Lighting began as a Melbourne sideline of the Iggulden family's Bentley Manufacturing in the early 1900s, and from the late 1930s on, Bill Iggulden was building self-balancing task lamps that had no real local equivalent. His Orbit came first, the long-running I-series followed in 1938, and the Studio K of 1962 went on to be shown at the Louvre and MoMA, one of the very few pieces of truly original Australian industrial design to travel that far. The naming was deliberate: Orbit, Planet, the cosmic vocabulary of small mechanical solar systems for a desk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe engineering is the heart of it. A sprung, counterweighted arm that holds whatever angle you leave it at, a focused cone at the end of it, and a body built to be moved a thousand times without going slack. It is a tool first, which is exactly what gives it its presence as an object on a desk now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mustard finish is the period detail that lifts it out of pure utility. Mid-century Australian homes liked their working pieces to carry colour: enamels on radios, telephones, kettles, and lamps that would otherwise have stayed industrial. Serviced and rewired so it works as it was built to, with a new switch fitted. It still reads as a tool first and a collectible second. That is why it works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248753344625,"sku":"KOBK.26.LGT.001","price":425.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/download_ef3549d0-c4c7-41ba-a576-b02583ff0b4b.jpg?v=1779843911"},{"product_id":"sculptural-lamp","title":"Sculptural Lamp","description":"\u003cp\u003eMade by a sculptor whose name has not survived, which is exactly the kind of object this store likes most.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat we know comes from the private collector we bought it from: that the maker was a sculptor working on their own, and that the name has gone. The object itself confirms the story. The base is concrete, cast and worked by hand rather than moulded for production. The incised linked-diamond pattern runs around the body like marks made for their own sake. The textured glass on top sits almost like a crown. None of this is the language of product design. It is a sculptor solving the problem of a lamp by making one as if it were a small piece of sculpture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat move, an artist building an everyday object, has a quiet history of its own. The same instinct put Alberto Giacometti to work on plaster lamps for Jean-Michel Frank in the 1930s and led Isamu Noguchi to his Akari lights a generation later: utility treated as another medium rather than as a constraint. We are not placing this piece in that company by attribution, only by spirit. It belongs to the same kind of thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe age is uncertain, but not contemporary. The hand reads earlier than that, though without a maker we cannot pin it more closely. The honest description is a one-off sculptural lamp by an unknown sculptor, well made enough that the lost name becomes part of the appeal rather than a problem with the piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248756752497,"sku":"KOBK.26.LGT.002","price":440.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/h16.jpg?v=1781597472"},{"product_id":"railway-post-lamp-c-1930s","title":"Railway \/ Post Lamp, c. 1930s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA former service light adapted with restraint. Railway and signalling lamps belonged to a world of visibility, safety and daily handling, not living-room display, and that history still sits in the object. These were lit, carried, hung, checked and refilled as part of someone's shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe thick original glass visibly distorts the bulbs behind it, the lid still opens as it was meant to, and the base has only been altered as far as needed to return it to use. Which department it served is left open, but the world it came from is not: transport, utility, duty and repetition. Rewired by KOBK for domestic use, otherwise honest to its working life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KILL OR BE KILLED","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43248756785265,"sku":"KOBK.26.LGT.003","price":495.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/5800\/9201\/files\/h23.jpg?v=1781597473"}],"url":"https:\/\/kobk.online\/collections\/lighting.oembed","provider":"KILL OR BE KILLED","version":"1.0","type":"link"}