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Lamp Base - Adolph Bruhn & Son, Wood, circa 1970-1990
Reg. No: SH 912084
- Summary:
- Wooden lamp base, made by Adolph Bruhn & Son, South Melbourne, circa 1970-1990.
The woodturning business of Adolph Bruhn & Son operated in South Melbourne, 1970-1990, and previously in Little Collins Street, Melbourne, circa 1897-1970. The business made a wide range of wooden products, including tables and architectural mouldings, and undertook specialist turning tasks. Part of a collection of nearly 900 items, including a lathe, cutting tools, hand tools, products, workshop fittings, office equipment, portraits, and an accounts ledger. - Description:
- Lamp base made from gold-coloured wood with very pronounced circular grain. Body is shaped like a baseball bat set upon a circular, rounded platform. These are two separate pieces of wood that have been glued together. A disc-shaped form rests above the body and has a hollow vertical channel bored into its centre for the electrical cord to enter and pass through body of lamp. Cord exits body via a smaller circular channel set into the side of the base of the body. A smaller circular channel is also present in the centre of the plat- form's underside.
Found in Area A of workshop. Displayed on high shelves in area that may have functioned as display area/shop window.
| Discipline: | History |
| Dimensions: | 49.40 cm (Height), 16.40 cm (Width) |
More information
| Tagged with: | furniture, german communities, german immigration, handcrafts, woodturning industry |
| Themes this item is part of: | Bruhn Collection, Working Life & Trades Collection |
| Primary Classification: | TRADES |
| Secondary Classification: | Woodturning |
| Tertiary Classification: | products |
| Maker: | Adolph Bruhn & Son, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1970-1990 |
| Place & Date Made: | Victoria, Australia |
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