Tinpot Alley: Stainless Steel Planters & Custom Metalwork

If there’s one thing I miss about dear old Blighty it’s the late-night kebab - or key-bob if you happen to be an American - run after allowing oneself to get a little too tipsy. Whether you need counselling in the form of comfort eating after being blown out more times than a worn tyre or just need something to soak up the beer, there’s nothing quite like unknown meat in unleavened bread covered in a bevy of sauces.

Unfortunately, most kebab establishments tend to be, shall we say, a bit cruddy. Obviously most neither notice nor care due various stages of blindness brought about by inadvertently taking jelly shots to the eyeball. However, it’s nice to see that certain kebab joints are bucking the trend with snazzy stainless steel counters:

You can see a few more pictures here.

Not too long ago I did a piece on our sister blog, The Tinbasher, relating to architectural stainless steel buildings.

If you’re interested, you can take a look at my steel building article here.

So how do you like the new site?

And if you’ve never been here before……how do you like the new site?

I’m still playing around with a few things but this is basically it. If you come across anything that isn’t working for you or seems a little weird, please leave me a comment so I can try and fix it.  There are one or two slight differences in the way it displays in firefox and internet explorer, and personally, I prefer the way it displays in ie.

Do have fun with the gallery at the bottom of the page as well as even more fun with the portfolio, which allows you to zoom and drag pictures of a larger size around your browser to compare and contrast things if you want. I’ll be adding more pictures to that as we go along.

Enjoy.

There’s industrial design and designer industrial. I’m quite sure the following stainless steel shower contraption falls into the latter of the two categories.

They almost remind me of some lamp fittings and water feature arrangements I toyed with a while back constructed from industrial pipe fittings.

You know, flanges for bases and elbows for spouts. It’s simply shocking that I was so severely laughed at for my sterling efforts. Like it was my fault the prototype galvanised versions rusted on the threads and I couldn’t get them apart without a vice and a monkey wrench. The final ones were always going to be made out of stainless.

Still, enough rambling about my failed design projects…..I like this shower.

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According to this website:

Buckminsterfullerene is discovered by Sir Harold Kroto in the UK and Richard E. Smalley and Robert F. Curl, Jr in the US. These three researchers shared the 1996 Nobel prize in chemistry for their discovery. Buckminsterfullerene’s atoms are bonded together into a highly symmetrical, hollow polygon structure (resembling a sphere) with 60 vertices and 32 faces, 12 of which are pentagons and 20 of which are hexagons giving it the same geometry as that of a football. Named after the architect R Buckminster Fuller (Bucky) whose geodesic dome design is similar to the molecular structure of C60, these unique structures, also known as buckyballs, have led to an entirely new branch of chemistry.

Depending on whether you were dragged up or had a slightly more middle class academic upbringing, you will be inclined to regard the above planter as a fully welded football or as a stainless steel Buckminster Fullerene.

For the record, it should be noted that these were first cobbled together in response to an enquiry about footballs.

You can take a look at a few more pictures at the bottom of the page then cast your own vote.