Upcycling and lamps

[RobTDCI]

Have you noticed the new craze of taking just about any kind of old object from bits of plumbing to petrol cans and sticking a lamp on it and calling it upcycling, often then trying to sell it on for stupid money? Nearly always they would be much better being left alone or being restored in their own right rather than making them into a lamp. I've just restored an Vacuum cleaner from the 1970s, (just a one off as part of a general interest in older electrics, I'm not a serious collector of vacs in the way I am of lighting). I came across this on instagram and think it looks ridiculous. I can't see that it would look good anywhere! What do you think? Surely if you were going to do anything with that, it would have been better to restore it as it was rather than vandalise it and create something that looks so daft? Lets see what other silly examples we can find!

[Danny]

Lol I could spend all day digging shit like this out from ebay

[fluorescent]

That looks proper wank!

[AngryHorse]

That has to be the worse looking standard lamp ever, they could have left the vacuum complete at least?, like with the bag and fitments, and everything attached?

[RobTDCI]

It would indeed have been better left as it was, after all, there is a market for vintage electrical appliances. Maybe it wasn't complete but even so, I'm sure it would have been better to use it for spares for another cleaner.