Designer handmade lamps made of decorative African pumpkin.

Now I work with such sorts of pumpkins.
This is a big, beautiful fruit. The work includes only fruit which were dried for 6-8 months.

The process of a lamp creation from an African pumpkin begins with careful cultivation. In our region, a decorative pumpkin, especially African one, will not have time to ripen in the open ground .
That’s why for some kinds I use a specially constructed greenhouse.

Decorative pumpkin is an unusually beautiful plant! It loves the sun, watering and proper nourishment. Lianes of pumpkin may reach 15 meters.

This way I grow decorative pumpkins in my garden.
I do love the whole process of forming lamps, from germination of seeds to the lamp creation.

Below you can see the whole process of lamp creation.

The decorative pumpkin should be dried very well. This process takes from 6 to 12 months.
Since then you can work with pumpkin. And first of all it needs to be cleaned of the insides.

As a rule, the whole process of cutting after drying takes 3 months.
So from the moment when the seed is planted to the moment when the lamp is turned on, it takes 12 to 15 months.

This lamp is the embodiment of tenderness.
A thin, exquisite pattern fuses the fruit, twists at the neck and collects all the strings in one bundle.

Each part has its own picture.
All shares are united by a gold placer.

There are tens of thousands of millimeter holes. And it creates an amazing golden luster.
In combination with a half-cut bark that glows with soft light, it gives the feeling of a fairy tale. It’s like you opened a treasure chest. Along each element of the composition there is an iridescent thread of the finest holes, which creates a feeling of golden luster.

There is an amazing game of light and color. After all, the body of the fetus has a clear, warm, yellow, sometimes even orange color. A crust of fruit does not let the glow go outside.

The neck of the lamp continues the same bends, resting on the top of the head.

Rowan night is the first lamp in which the pristine, natural top of the pumpkin is preserved.
A tail of a pumpkin ends with a small golden figure of a graceful cat.

Stand with ceramic fittings. Has special ears that hold the whole lamp.
Thanks to this, the lamp can be picked up for a thin neck to carry.

If you turn the lamp while holding the stand, it can be removed from the stand and replaced with a light bulb.
Although the lamp Led is promised to work more than 10 years.

Lamp from a natural decorative pumpkin “Rowan Night”:​​​​​​​

Turkish pomegranate is a big lamp from an African pumpkin. It has the shape of a slightly flattened ball and a small flirtatious slope.

I got a great pleasure working with that! The fruit is surprisingly tight, but it can be cut very easily. Quite thick and dense shell of pumpkin gives the flow of the artist’s imagination and allows you to make half-cut patterns and ornaments. In combination with thousands of holes it turns out to be an incredibly beautiful golden glow.

The lamp is supplemented with man-made transparent pomegranate inclusions, which slip along round shapes of the fruit. The lamp had been created more than 4 months.

The lamp stands on a specially made wooden stand. Led lightning.

Light flirting is a table pumpkin lamp. The unusual shape of this pumpkin wakes up memories about light flirting.

A little humor and imagination and you will smile, looking at it. Curved lines emphasize the grace of this girl. And securely hide the lighting wire. The stone from which this lamp grows is man-made.

Polymer clay was used. As a result, a completely unique table lamp made of pumpkin – a gourd.

The club (cudgel) is a sort of decorative pumpkin, which is created on the basis of long gourd and bottle Dipper (Northern Caucasus).

I do love this pumpkin shape for its grace and the ability to embody fabulous, magical patterns.
The lamp “Arab Night” is decorated with stones, flatbacks, inserts of colored glass.The pattern is not repeated. In combination with a ghostly, light glow, which is created not through a cut pattern, bright golden glimpses make the lamp enigmatic.

The lamp is finished by hand made transparent stone, through which a soft golden light goes from inside. Altogether it creates an absolutely amazing and mysterious image that magically influences on a person. It calms and pacifies.

The lamp had been created during 3.5 months. It has tens of thousands of small holes. The lamp stands on a specially made wooden stand.

Led lightning.

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The Orange Wind is a lamp with carved lines that slide along the graceful surface of the fruit, repeating its beautiful and slender curves.

There are thousands of tiny holes and golden light streaming from them.

The eye cannot stop because one composition continues the other.

This is a man’s lamp. It was designed like that, it was made like that.

I called it the Orange Wind. And this is not by chance. Composite lines flow through the fruit and  wrap around the lamp in its slender forms like the wind, and the turned figure glows orange, sunny color.

This is an interesting fact! All pumpkins glow with warm orange light, although their interior side is just of a light beige colour.

Pumpkin fruits are always different.
It is impossible to find two identical fruits. This is what makes it interesting.
Each fruit gives new thoughts and new ideas.

This is an unusually warm and malleable material. It’s a pleasure to work with it.
And each pumpkin has its own voice. When I work with such fruit for a long time (up to 3.5 months), I remember its voice and this is what prevents me from cutting through it when it is not needed.

My cat Julka doesn’t like when I cut lamps. Apparently the pumpkin’s voice annoys him and he starts pushing my feet and tearing the carpet frantically 

Although, when I do drilling of the smallest holes, he likes this process and he comes to watch.

Glass stones were used in the composition of this lamp. They put accents and complement it with vitality, working on the light. And the framing of the golden glitter, which is given by clusters of the smallest holes, emphasizes the brightness of the stones.

Each of my new pumpkin lamps is always a new challenge, new emotions and new techniques.
And what is important, each lamp is made by myself with great love and always carries only warmth and good feelings.

I do not know who is going to be its owner, but I know that he or she will feel calm and relaxed next to such a lamp. And it helps to cope with any problems!

A little about equipment of a design lamp from a decorative African pumpkin.

The lamp stand deserves your special attention. This is a natural material called suvel. It was brought from the Altai. It is grinded and equipped by my husband Alexander.

Suvel is very beautiful and unusually pleasant to touch. In this work it was not painted. I left its natural colour. Only hot flaxseed oil and thorough polishing.

The lamp is equipped with a lampholder and an LED lamp, which can be easily replaced, although such a lamp can last for 27 years.
Textile standard wire 2х0,75

The power button is standard, but the cover for the button is made with my hands and I used a large walnut for that which is hardened inside with polymer clay.
Electric plug is in retro style. There are no such plugs for sale, alas!

Designer lamp from the African pumpkin “Orange Wind” has been certified and received a number in the International Unified Register of Works of Art.

Specifications.

Height: 52 см
Maximum diameter: 21 см
LED lighting

Price: $3200

Available for order!

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