Art Deco Lamp

Our regular workshop, On the Mend, is at the Telegraph Hill Centre, where we are alongside Mend it with Mo, the drop in repair café run by Mo Sumah once a month, and then have our own sessions in between. When the repair café is on, we invite people to tell us about what they’ve brought, and sometimes they stay for tea, and we hear a whole story. One man brought in a lamp, an imitation art deco table lamp that his wife was very fond of. He was feeling bad for not having been able to fix it, and he felt some urgency, because his wife was expecting their first baby in a week’s time, and he really wanted to have it ready for then. Mo discovered that it would need a spare part, so they ordered it then and there, and Mo hung on to the lamp so that he could work on it during the week and hopefully get it back to them before the baby came.  We don’t know the end of that story, but we do know that the man who brought it in got chatting to other people who were there with their objects, including a woman with a new baby. They swopped numbers so that they could get together once his baby arrived, because he was new to the area and didn’t know other parents with small children. This is just one of the glimpses into a life that we get when we hear about the objects people have brought in, and just one example of a connection being made, but there are so many of them. Mending connects.