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City Girls Lamps Mimic Disheveled Outfits

An anonymous London design duo, City Girls, creates unique lamps using reclaimed materials like lace, coat hangers, and discarded objects.

The duo, known as city.girls.xp, sources materials from eBay, Facebook Marketplace, and even the roadside, combining them into one-of-a-kind pieces. Their process involves using items such as sequins, chains, feathers, and fragments of furniture.

Each lamp is given a distinct name, like 'Zoe,' a feathered floor lamp, or 'Sabine,' which incorporates a chrome chair fragment and a model boat.

Lamps like 'Lola' and 'Nina' are covered in Glomesh sequins, while 'Virginia' uses old chair legs and features a distinctive green head.

City Girls liken their creative process to assembling a mismatched outfit, emphasizing a deliberate mix of materials and visible signs of fabrication.

The studio's name is inspired by Margaret Harkness's Victorian novel, 'A City Girl,' which depicts 1880s London.

City Girls has gained recognition in London, with their work featured in exhibitions such as 'Ten Lamps by City Girls' curated by Jermaine Gallacher.

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