Decorating with letters from old shop signs

If you like the graphics and lettering, surely you will like the solutions that I'm going to propose. Some time ago we talked about how to decorate the house with the letters. Today, I speak specifically of how to make vintage neon signs, now retired.

Once abandoned in the past were hardly preserved, but accompanied in landfills. Today, however, have become something sought after, not only by fans of modern art.
Jack Pierson, for example, is an american artist who has transformed the recycling of letters from old signs in one of the basic characteristics of its work, melancholy and a little retro.

If you want to try, in Paris, Nicolas Flachot and Thierry Bruere, gave birth to Kidimo, a store that sells only old signs, inspired by their passion for flea markets. The duo actually spun off the letters written by the whole and makes it available to create than others. You can choose the size and color for each, forming their own personal work of art: each element is indeed unique.

Of letters there is something for every taste: wood, zinc, iron or bakelite. And in many sizes, colors and fonts. Just take a ride on the site: you can sort the letters directly online and the staff send photos of possible proposals, based on the choices and needs of the customer.

If you're more adventurous, you can groped to make yourself a tour of the little markets looking for the perfect writing. Or rather, do as David Buckingham, who compose his written pop and alternative fishing letters, old iron and materials of all kinds, also goes by smashing cars and scrap yards.

Or procure one or more lamps and lamp Riluci. Studioata is a group of architects from Turin who has decided to give new life to the big neon signs abandoned, turning them into decorative lights, but in a sustainable way. Replaces it with a few modifications the old neon lamps, under the law, with modern LED. Curious certificate attached to each creation: each letter, in fact, a kind of traceability scheme that allows us to reconstruct the history of the sign with origin and function as a kind of historical memory.



www.riluci.it
www.studioata.com
www.kidimo.com
www.buckinghamstudio.com