I was approached by Gary Friedman and his team from restoration Hardware this year to design a group of lights for them. Gary and the team had eaten at Camino restaurant in Oakland CA and liked the lights I had done for them. I ended up designing 11 lights for RH for the fall catalog.
These production lights are beautifully crafted, well designed and very affordable.
If you’re interested in a uniquely designed and crafted light just for you please contact me. jon at formandreform dot com
My custom work is made right here in West Oakland in my shop Form & Reform. Each piece is signed and made to make your space uniquely yours. Here is some of the custom lighting I have done.
My furniture line is available here
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This post was written by Form & Reform on September 10, 2012
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Zolie and her Cousin Stellan shooting fire from the Golden Mean Snail car.
Great story at the East Bay Monthly
Presents
Featuring
This is a great event to bring your kids to. Learn the basics of steam engines, see some great Machine art, eat food, drink beer and watch the kids imagine what they are going to do when they grow up.
The Serpents are growing and taking shape everyday. Lots of wonderful friends and new faces showed up to help Sunday and lots got done. Still needing skilled volunteers. Contact me if you have skills in metal fabrication, general fabrication, LED knowledge, soldering, Flash animation of LEDs. car stereo installation, sewing. For people with no workshop skills – be a gopher for hardware or food runs, help us organize and mail out rewards from our sure-to-be-successful kickstarter so we can keep moving forward… I’m sure I can think of more!
The kickstarter fundraiser is going well but we still need more than $4000 to get our funding! Please tell your friends, spam the world, pitch in a $25. Less than a week left and if we don’t fully fund we lose the $6000 we have already raised!
Pictures of our progress
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The head begins to take shape. It looks incredible and I can’t wait to see it filled in with sheet metal.
Tansy and Kyrsten have been working hard to get the fins cut.
Me laying out the head on cardboard.
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The Serpent Twins
This post was written by Form & Reform on June 27, 2011
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The build of the Serpent Twins is in full production now. Nice to see the shop so busy and the pile of unfinished work giving way to the finished one. This is going to be a really cool project and I’m excited about performing with our new 50 ft long 24 volt puppets!
Support our project here
www.serpenttwins.com
Picture updates of the build
We are done framing the wing and now the start of the lower Jaw. After the framing is done all this will get filled in with sheet metal.
Discovery channel Canada came by for a day shoot to see what we are up to this year.
Lauren soldering 1000’s of LEDs for the body of the white Serpent
Tansy painting the wheels black.
I’ve been working on fins with the help of Because We Can‘s custom made plasma cutting jigs.
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This post was written by Form & Reform on June 17, 2011
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Jon’s Pictures
This is the drawing we sent into Burning Man DMV before we started on the car.
The local fire department got to pull the reigns first!
Zolie and Karydis
Every Great artwork started as an idea and a simple sketch. Come see the humble sketches of our art car the Golden Mean and other great Conceptions.
Zolie and I spotted the Oscar Mayer Weenr car from the freeway after work last night and circled back to take some pictures.
More pictures here
Great details all over the car and one of my favorites was the windshield wipers. Probably because I don’t have a windshield on the snail.
Weinermobile!
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This post was written by Form & Reform on September 29, 2009
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Burning Man
Pictures of our week
Kyrsten on her new Electrobite car. This was a huge hit.
What a rocket! the inside was just as nice and the fireworks we saw were over the top Zack!
Day before opening and they are still putting on the finishing touches. Zolie noticed the Monkey’s head didn’t work and impressed most people who didn’t even notice the monkey in the mans tummy.
The porch! We rolled with them most of the week and put on the 1st Steam punk rave Friday night after the rocket.
Pictures of the Steampunk Rave
Electrobite, Snail and the porch
Kids-ville with fresh cookies from the porch
Perez and Sarriugarte Family outing
Houston we have a problem!
DPW parade with a live band on top! We got 19 people in the snail at the end!
Quite the show. I really liked the scale of the Man this year. I hope it keeps getting smaller.
Camp Mates jump for Joy!
Snail Crew stops to enjoy the moon.
Oilpunk Rave with the Hobo Goblins, the Porch and us. John hooked us up with a wireless mic and the snail became the PA for the porch most the week. Thats our spot light as well.
Amy’s seat, Kyrsten’s lights, lots of sleeplittle nights and we are done! Off to BM to show it off tonight. I posted more picture to my flickr site. Looking forward to sitting in a chair and drinking beer for a week.
Patina is done and boy does it look great! We always have to pray to the patina gods before , but the problem this time was me grabbing the wrong chemical bottle. Little too brown for Kyrsten’s taste, but beautiful none the less.
Mike came by to wire up the lights last night, and Amy brought by the finnished seat… wow! I’m looking forward to seeing all the parts: eyes, seat, and lights together on the car at once.
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Up till 6am and all the fabrication work is done! Now for the patina, paint and lights.
New Pictures
Kyrsten’s rivets look great! All the forged textures and hand hammered sheet metal look great together. As I make something this complex it’s some times hard to see ahead to make sure it’s all going to work together. Today was one of those days that I felt it did. Might feel different once I turn it over and start on the tail but today the head worked for me. Kyrsten started on the lighting by building the battery box for the cutest little 12v 7amp hr gel cell. All it’s going to do is run LED so it should last the entire week for Burning Man. Had a minor time set back today when I had to visit the ER to have some metal removed from my eye. It was quiet there and we were back by lunch. Still a bit painful, but eyes heal fast.
sheet metal wood and a hammer
Can’t wait to see Tansy’s eyes in place and Amy’s leather seat!
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