London design studio JamesPlumb has reused twisted steel rebar and concrete rubble salvaged from demolition sites to create a series of delicate structures that hold candles.
The studio headed by James Russell and Hannah Plumb was interested in repurposing materials that are usually discarded when the foundations of existing buildings are uprooted during the demolition process.

Its Steel Roots lighting collection comprises unique structures made from rebar ? the reinforcing bar commonly used in architectural foundations.
This is welded to create compositions that support simple steel and brass candlesticks.
"A large part of the design comes through the demolition process which bends and contorts the steel in completely unplanned ways," Russell told Dezeen. "We keep these shapes just as we find them, and the challenge is to combine the right pieces and arrange them to form a continuous loop."
The catalyst for the project came during a visit to San Francisco in 2016, when the couple came across a group of park benches that had been removed as part of a renovation project. The benches were discarded with their steel and concrete foundations exposed.
During subsequent travel to places such as Berlin and Lebanon, the designers were drawn to ruins and demolition sites.
The tangled forms created by piles of rebar with clumps of concrete still attached prompted a fascination with the naked materiality, which for them held a raw beauty.

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