Autolykus

Autolykus, London
email : info@autolykus.co.uk
tel : (0)75 3345 1831
© 2017 Autolykus

Our name is Autolykus and we are a design studio and workshop that turns stuff into more stuff.

We are a company balancing on the edges of art and design. We have experience in a range of areas from lighting, furniture, interiors, architecture and landscape to food, automata, writing and sculpture. We have a host of designers and craftsmen and women that we collaborate with to ensure that each piece, each assemblage, each bit of stuff… is Autolykus.

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All our creations are bespoke and hand made in London. If your desired light has already found a home, we can easily make another one that will be very similar and look forward to discussing the possibilities. Because of the nature of the materials Autolykus uses, some items will mature with age. We appreciate this process and believe it adds to our objects uniqueness.

2017

Mōna - Lamp

This beautiful monster was a long time in the development, but now we understand the mechanism it can be applied to all sorts of structures. It’s base is a heavy piece of cast steel made by Griffin and Matlock. They were manufactures of scientific scales and measurers but we still don’t know exactly what this amazing piece was made for! It’s a mystery. We have now adapted the mechanism to operate an arm made from brass stair runner rods to raise and lower our moon. When the hand-carved alabaster handle is turned the moon rises to a full hight of 160cm. This is the first piece in our luna series - 160cm h (arm raised) x 90cm x 30cm d.

£7000

2017

Over The Moon - Chandelier

This piece is a kinetic chandelier based on the nursery rhyme “Hey diddle diddle”, and an homage to our late co-founder. It contains a hand-carved cows head in English Alabaster, a cast milk bottle (resin and onyx powder) and a fin of book binding leather in the 2D form of a jump. Each of the three items is held in perfect balance by a series of brass rods, each of which also holds a moon for the cow to jump over. We wanted to crate a mobile chandelier. Previous pieces had led us down a lunar path and so someone jokingly said, “I know, how about The Cow that Jumped Over the Moon.” What started as a joke gradually became a discussion and finally a design - 180cm w x 50cm d x 70cm h.

£POA

2017

Measure 4 Measure No.1 - Desk Lamp

Dumbbell weight, a disc of recycled acrylic sheet secured to a carpenters square, supporting two steel rules clasping a spun copper shade-30cm h x 32cm dx 10cm w.

£600

2017

Ships Log - Coffee Table

We are chasing away the gloom of the generic coffee table with this colour-full hand marbled creation. Marbling is mesmerising to do, to look at and the colour combinations are endless and each table top is absolutely unique. We discovered an old ships log for measuring a boats speed when dragged through the water so it seemed apropos to pair it with the technique of marbling a surface, pulling inks across water thickened with seaweed-44cm h x 60cm d.

£3000

2017

Killer Konsole - Console Table

This deliciously patinated copper tank is all natural - we have only added adjustable legs, a top and cut a door into it with a tiny pink knob. These tanks were originally manufactured and used for spraying the grape vines in France. We have about fifteen in stock, all slightly different styles with vastly varying degrees of verdigris. The legs can be made to any size and have adjustable ends to accommodate uneven floors-110cm h x 37cm w x 20cm d.

£2400

2017

UP No.1 - Coffee Table

The table is made from English alabaster chipping salvaged from previous carvings held in a pool of resin. The underside is left rough and craggy while the top is perfectly smooth. The top rests on three case rubber heads, gently being squashed onto a base of brushed brass, whilst an old pressure gauge secures the centre of the legs. These rubber heads give the table top a gentle and comedic wobble - 48cm h x 60cm d.

£3500

2017

Bow Lamp - Desk Lamp

The original inspiration for this lamp was a violin bow sliding on the wooden wheel. Through prototyping its morphed into this elegant beauty. Tulip wood base with a ye old penny switch, brass stem and bow tensioned over a discarded wooden wheel with an out of tune piano wire. A copper spinning for a shade and an out of date weight to counter balance it.

£7000

2017

Tea Light - Desk Lamp

Grannies old tea pot reconditioned into a tea light.

£220

2017

T-Square - Wall Light

Old garage funnel countered over wooden pulley wheels with an escaped cuckoo clock weight, suspended from an old school wooden square.

£1250

2017

Demijohn No.2 - Ceiling Pendant

25L of air contained in a hand blown glass bubble, discovered in the depths of France suspended from a copper and brass hanging mechanism. The wine is all gone though.

£740

2017

Demijohn No.1 - Celing Pendant

A uniquely spherical demijohn in our collection of glass.

£740

2017

Scribe - Desk Lamp

A block that's lost its scribe, replaced with a new steel upright and copper spinning. Switch mounted in a slice of brass.

£600

2017

Score - Desk Lamp

A beautifully machined engineers block and scribe, caped with a copper spinning and a 12v G4 LED light source.

£600

2017

Tea Pot - Desk Lamp

Nanna's tea pot, copper stem and a sugar scoop.

£270

2017

LEVELS No.1 - Desk Lamp

Strong and stable dumbbell weight, a disc of recycled yogurt pot plastic secured to a carpenters square, supporting an LED strip hidden in a rather lovely wooden spirit level.

£750