{"id":27,"date":"2007-07-14T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T18:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/2007\/07\/14\/frank-buchwalds-machine-lights\/"},"modified":"2007-07-14T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T18:36:21","slug":"frank-buchwalds-machine-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/14\/frank-buchwalds-machine-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Buchwald&#8217;s &#8220;Machine Lights&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;text-indent:0px;margin-bottom:12px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankbuchwald.de\/engl_v\/serie_e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/MachinelightsA.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"301\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nFrank Buchwald&#8217;s gallery for his series of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankbuchwald.de\/engl_v\/serie_e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Machine Lights<\/a>&#8221; sculptures is either a collection of what I&#8217;d like to install at the Secret Laboratory, or maybe a collection of things I wish I&#8217;d designed myself.\n<\/p><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankbuchwald.de\/serie_05_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/MachinelightsC.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"260\" width=\"110\" style=\"float:right;margin:12px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;\"\/><\/a>Some of these look like something that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankbuchwald.de\/engl_v\/serie_01_1_e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crept out of Tesla&#8217;s brain<\/a>, while others are more the sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankbuchwald.de\/engl_v\/serie_07_e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buck Rogers chic<\/a> that I hope is my own province.These are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankbuchwald.de\/engl_v\/fertigung_2_e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">artfully made<\/a> objects, certainly not toys &#8211; spend some time with those detail shots to see just what Buchwald&#8217;s up to here. There are hand-blown glass bulbs and tubes, and individually machined and finished parts in steel and brass.\n<\/p><p>\nI just love the demented craftsmanship in these. The lights are available in limited numbers, but as far as I can tell there&#8217;s no pricing information available unless you contact the artist. I&#8217;ve got a feeling they&#8217;ll be beyond <em>my<\/em> means unless this ATM-Dispersal Ray I&#8217;m tinkering with works out. But by all means &#8211;<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankbuchwald.de\/engl_v\/serie_e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">go look<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;text-indent:0px;margin-bottom:12px;margin-top:16px;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/MachinelightsB.jpg\" height=\"124\" width=\"200\" \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of streamline moderne\/art deco light fixtures as sculpture by German artist Frank Buchwald.  They vary from a steampunk \/ Tesla style to the sort of retro science fiction, Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon world of the art deco future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}