Glazing a large custom Martin Lantern
Wiring large custom project
Polishing frame
Welding custom exterior sconces
Remains Lighting's Brooklyn Factory
Remains Lighting founder David Calligeros
Displaying our LEED Gold award for our factory renovations.
Tending garden
Spring 2012 weeding.
Vegetable bounty
The Remains Lighting garden, summer 2011.
Sunrise over factory green roof
Machining custom work
Putting patina on a custom lantern
Sconces in production
Rex Sconces waiting for QC.
Resin casting
Tony Duquette resin pieces being pulled from a mold.
Polishing hoods for custom lanterns
Polishing hoods for custom lanterns.
Machining
Cutting a mortise on a wall plate to accept the backplate
Custom production work
Soldering a custom leaded glass pendant.
Gold Leafing
Gold leafing a Tony Duquette Coquille resin casting.
Cutting Duquette Finials
Cutting Duquette finials from a plate of solid brass
Hand working sheet metal forms
Brass coils from the lathe
Instructing a designer in brazing candlesticks
Instructing a designer in brazing candlesticks
Instructing a designer in brazing candlesticks
Hand finishing in the lathe
Parts before final finishing
All of the disparate aspects of a job reunite before final finishing.
Sconce arms in the matte nickel bath
After a long cycle of cutting brass
Hand-fitting custom mirror frames
Rolling a brass chandelier ring
Trimming steel for a welding fixture
Racks for plating and patina
Milling sconce columns
Polished brass lantern bodies
A house full of polished nickel
Burnished brass Philip flush mounts
Corner details of Marlowe lanterns
Burnished nickel lanterns
Precision and repeatability
A table full of machined veronique bobeches.
Preparing showroom samples
Brazed brass frames at the ready
Completed jobs awaiting QC
Completed jobs awaiting QC
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Oxyacetylene welding
Factory parking and garden
